That&#x27;s not fair. He didn&#x27;t say &quot;children should be raised to exactly the same standards as they were in 1977&quot;. He said &quot;we were raised without the benefits of smart-onesies, and we came out fine&quot;. Those are two different arguments.<p>Meanwhile, the reality is that the bulk of the decline in US infant mortality is attributable to improved prenatal care. If you want to keep arguing about the value of modernizing parenting, can we start with statistics broken out by income level? Has infant mortality among the children of well-off parents declined sharply as well? If modernization is saving children, that statistic should reveal it.