Trae (Trey) Stephens

I think it's going to become more and more common.

You know, I think we've seen in recent years that there is a big shift towards singleness, that there's just not as many people that are getting married or they're getting married much later.

And obviously, when you get married much later, you have fewer kids.

You know, there's like trickle down impacts of this.

But like, you know, from a societal political perspective, in 50 years, if these trends continue, like America is a totally different place.

I mean,

Yeah, I mean, we try to be really thoughtful about this.

Our kids are 10 and 12.

Our sort of policy on smartphone access and social media is that we're going to hold out for as long as we possibly can.

And there are great examples.

the babysitter that they have had for the last few years, she just left for college and she literally just got social media, like before she went to college and she's 18 years old.

It's like, it's possible to be cool and, you know, sociable and relational and smart and not subject yourself to that unnecessarily at too young of an age.

And so I think that's kind of our policy with our kids is to try to keep them in that zone for as long as we can.

So no smartphones.

No smartphones.

I mean, they don't even have an Apple Watch yet, which I think is you're starting to see that kind of happen with kids in that range where their parents don't want them to have access to social media, but they want them to be reachable, textable, callable.

We haven't even done that.

They haven't demonstrated that they need it, and you can see all sorts of –

sort of questionable behaviors that happen with kids when they're eight years old, the way that they use their iPads even.

It's like, wow, these things are super addictive.