Yet to have a family nowadays— (A) with birth control readily available, and (B) inflation a good economic argument against having children—is nearly an expression of ambition itself. Though ambition was once (C) the domain chiefly of monarchs and aristocrats, it has, in more recent times, increasingly become the domain of the middle class. Working, saving, planning—these, the daily aspects of ambition— have always been (D) the distinguished marks of a rising middle class.
