Caroline, or Change

After a divorce boom, a divorce bust,

For college grads,  conservatism's back,

Marrying before children is a must,

You get your degree, stay on the right track.

Will America become like Sweden,

Will my daughter have a child with no spouse,

I hope so, I hope she takes a lead in,

Creating a new kind of fam'ly house.

With Nick, and perhaps Olivia, too,

A Philly home with a baby or three,

May they make what Tony Kushner wrote true,

May my daughter be the change, be set free.

I'm fine with an absence of matrimony,

For children I'd love a ceremony.