I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.
Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.