This is true, but economic hard times should be pushing more people together, if for no other reason than to lower the total cost of living and increase living standards. If people aren't even getting married because they think the corporation is their source of happiness, there's no chance for the kids to happen in the first place.
Things are bad, but the entire value system has been flipped on its head. The job should not come before family, nor should the job be your source of happiness, the job may be something you take pride in and hold value in but it should be a secondary concern to building a family, even a childless one (which will often lead to at least a single child, anyway). This is likely an extremely large part of the reason why Japan has a birth rate of 1.1 and is going to start losing a million people per year without increased immigration, which is going to make the economic situation even worse for a long time because the young will have a higher financial (tax or otherwise) burden placed upon them to care for the elderly.
