Assumed: sex, cohabitation, education, job, material security, marriage, children

https://ifstudies.org/blog/whats-wrong-with-the-success-sequence

Bloodless moralism https://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/02/bloodless-moralism

all moral claims [must] be translated into material terms. … Bad behavior can be condemned only if it is shown to correlate with some quantifiable negative outcome like a greater likelihood of receiving a free or reduced-price lunch among grade-schoolers, a higher incidence of antidepressant use among adults, or a measurable decline in the national GDP.