These are "old fashioned puritan values"?
No.
This is behavior that is indelibly programmed in the DNA of homo sapiens.
It's the sapiens part that's important here.
Yes. There have always been deviations from this behavior, but since long before history began, men and women were establishing permanent relationships, having children, and working long, hard hours--whether at bringing home mammoth meat for the family--protecting everyone from cave bears--making warm clothes for the kiddies out of sabre-tooth tiger skins--or whatever.
It's why homo sapiens is the most successful animal on the planet.
Homo sapiens is still engaged in this highly successful behavior.
Sharing the planet with large numbers of homo non-sapiens hasn't changed anything.
Don't expect homo non-sapiens to understand. It's beyond his/her comprehension.
I bought the book and read it and it is frightening.
I urge people to buy it and read it. Heavy, HEAVY on graphs etc.
Why the media loves to defend illegitimacy, drugs, tattoos and lazy men on unemployment/disability is beyond me. They themselves wouldn’t let their kids live like that nor do they.
As for homo sapiens, children of single mothers bcome very much like primates, it becomes a primate horde, with young males running in packs, fighting over females, the young females having babies as soon as they are fertile, the females forming the only relational group. We revert to primates very quickly without marriage.