Can you explain how you get from contraception to cutting?
Both words start with the letter C.
Contraception is the single biggest factor behind the sharp rise in divorce rates that hit between 1965 and 1975 and has stayed (with fluctuations) since then. Contraception also created casual, extra-marital sex, which by definition is unstable. Bring children into that situation and it’s disaster. Contraception separated sex from procreation and marriage.
And women foolishly bought into this. They, out of insecurity (fear of never finding a man), give themselves to men who have not and will not commit. They think they are having “protected sex” because they use contraception to “protect” themselves against procreation. Sooner or later this was bound to lead to the idea that unmarried women or unmarried couples (by definition an unstable situation) having babies is okay—if the babies are “wanted.” Even when these couples who have had extramarital, relatively casual sex (sex outside of real commitment, outside of indissoluble marriage IS casual, compared to sex within an promise of indissoluble marriage.
Once the sexual revolution took place and people married after having casual sex, their marriages fell apart more often and pressure for no-fault divorce arose. Those legal changes permitted one partner by himself to end the marriage. So divorce increased.
Divorce is the basic factor behind fatherless children. Fatherless boys don’t grow up, accept responsibility, commit life-long to women. Without lifelong commitment, divorce happens. It affects everyone—children are born into unstable relationships and even those whose parents stay together have friends and live in an environment of instability.
Separating sex from indissoluble marriage and procreation lies at the root of all our social pathologies today. Every damn one of them. As long as contraception involved condomns and was associated mostly with men who frequented prostitutes and had a stigma, most people avoided it. When it was mainstreamed via the invisible pill and became the “women’s responsibility,” men were freed to use women more than ever.
And women stupidly agreed to their own abuse.