Indeed:the author has exceptional understanding.
One part esp.:
The collapse didn’t start in courtrooms or legislatures. It began in the bedroom. Late-nineteenth-century “free love” advocates preached sexual expression without consequence. They were helped later by the rise of scientific contraception and Planned Parenthood, which promised that sex could finally be separated from its biological consequence, procreation. For centuries, sex had driven marriage. It created life and therefore demanded protection for both woman and child. Reliable birth control and legal abortion made that framework seem unnecessary. The biological covenant could be bypassed. Sex became recreation instead of creation.
And the lack of children fostered spoiled. lazy, bored, purposeless ones.
The "free love" colonies of Oneida, NY or French communes or et cetera were oddities that had NO serious impact upon general thinking in the U.S.
They were seen by the vast majority as, at best, curiosities - at worse, as dens of inequity.
No serious American thinker ever pointed to the practical application of "free love" and developed a significant following.
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