Rick Salick
Appearances
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BONUS | Opinion: Does our country's low birth rate concern you?
I am concerned, not just for the population, but also because I think it's universal around the last, say, two or three generations, X, Y, Z, whichever ones you want to put into that. And I think that unless something were to change, I expect that it's going to continue in that direction. I think that it's heavily influenced by a variety of things.
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BONUS | Opinion: Does our country's low birth rate concern you?
There's no one piece of it, but I do think that things like social media, the family unit in general, how people are, I think I use the word selfish, but didn't mean it as they're only about themselves, but people are thinking about themselves more. And I think a lot of that comes from not just parenting, but the social media side of it. where people are less social, they're on their own more.
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BONUS | Opinion: Does our country's low birth rate concern you?
They don't think about the family unit, in my mind, the way that people have in past generations. Came from a big family, so that was certainly an influence. We were a blended family. My mother's twin sister and her husband were killed in a car accident when they were very young. They had five kids, so we all just came together as a group of nine. And that's how we grew up.
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BONUS | Opinion: Does our country's low birth rate concern you?
And we've always stayed very close since then. So I've had a good experience with a big family and having a lot of people around. So I get concerned that some kids, maybe either they're not being raised that way or they just don't see the value in it because they're not experiencing it.