The way things are going, its possible that the farmstead lifestyle will be one of the highest standards of living available to the common man.

The alternative might be living in 800sf apartments in a 15 minute city eating whatever food is on offer. Living through screens all day. Perhaps their kids will enjoy that way of life more than the sun on their face on a May afternoon with birds chirping in a field of grass wet with dew petting their livestock.

I omitted the '/s'.

In all seriousness, I could see the value of that in some idyllic context of a family farm but the days of having children for the sake of cheap labor are over (in the US at least).