Disappearing Middle Class

“Like the mountain gorilla and the hawksbill turtle, the American Middle Child is now an endangered species. As the ideal number of children per family has shrunk to two — that’s not me speaking, it’s demographics — the middle child, in a very real sense, is disappearing” Adam Sternbergh: The Extinction of the Middle Child They’re becoming an American rarity, just when America could use them the most.