There are statistics that, rather than surprising, are thought-provoking. One of them is this: in Argentina, childless households are now the majority. A recent report from the Observatory of Human Development and Vulnerability of the Universidad Austral It shows that the birth rate fell by 40% in the last decade. This is not just a decline—which is also observed in other countries in the region—but the speed and depth with which it occurred: the drop was abrupt and unprecedented in Latin America.