I'm cautiously optimistic that the terrible social trends that peaked during the Baby Boomers will mostly decline over the coming decades. Whether or not that's for good reasons or bad, I'm not entirely sure.

For example, the Boomers are the generation most likely to go through a divorce. Divorce rates among millennials are actually down (https://time.com/5405757/millennials-us-divorce-rate-decline/).

Here's the flipside of that, though: millennials are less likely to get married in general.

Do I think it's better to hold off on getting married and have a longer marriage than getting married and divorced?

Yes.

Do I think people should be skeptical of marriage as an institution or an experience because their parents or grandparents treated it just like any other old contract?

No.

Separate from that, I'm pretty optimistic about the direction that traditional religious affiliation is going.

While it seems like religious affiliation in general is declining in the United States, traditional religious affiliation is growing. See this article here about Catholics, for example: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/traditional-catholic-parishes-grow-even-as-us-catholicism-declines.

My general sentiment on religion is "don't make it a country club. If you're going to do it, do it." So I view this as a positive trend. People at traditional parishes are better at getting their friends and family to join them and then convert, too, so this has a compounding effect. Not to mention, traditional practitioners of any religion actually have more children. I'm a pro-natalist. I think more humans is generally good. So that's a positive effect of this trend, too.