The Younger Female Generation

We admit to a profound sense of befuddlement concerning Gen X'er and Millennial females. Ned has no idea how they think, nor how they view the world. He can see that they can text, but other than that, admits defeat. A recent encounter illustrates his dilemma. At his local Market of Choice, where he was indulging himself in a coffee and trying to read his Economist, what should he see but a Millennial Female with infant in tow. Thinking nothing was amiss, he returned to the bad news in his Economist. But, moments later, another Millennial Female approached, with another infant in tow, It appeared from the conversation that the first female was seeking a nanny for her infant, explaining that her present nanny was leaving and that her life was "going to get crazy"over the summer. The second female replied in a supportive manner, and Ned was content to leave them to their business until he heard one ask the other if "a father was in the picture", to which the female replied "no." And, it turns out, a father wasn't "in the picture" for the other female as well. So, Ned was given to understand that both females had had illegitimate children and had no intention of getting married to the father, whomever that was. In fact, they were content to have nothing to do with him.
Ned wonders how these females can afford nannies? But more importantly, wonders in his most lugubrious 'get off my lawn!' persona, what has happened to this country, when young women can have multiple children by multiple men, and feel no guilt or remorse whatsoever, nor, apparently concern for the psychological wellbeing of the child as it grows up without a father, and begins to internalize a similar "lifestyle."
He begins to see how a Pygmy Narcissist Plutocrat like Romney might well be elected.