Sexual revolution is key cause of America's social disarray, asserts book author

Sexual revolution is key cause of America's social disarray, asserts book author
Story by Lauren Green • 12h ago


You may not like author Mary Eberstadt's conclusions about the effects of the sexual revolution.

You may even vehemently disagree with them.

But the data is solid.

As she herself says, "I'm using perfectly secular sources. There is no theology in this book. I'm looking at what the evidence tells us about the way we are living now and what it's doing to the wider world around us."

Eberstadt, a senior fellow at the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C., took a look at the long-term effects of the movement of the ‘60s and ’70s that was supposed to liberate society from its religiously uptight and outdated beliefs about marriage and romance.

It was heralded as a good thing.

But something happened that few predicted.



Eberstadt's research shows that the sexual revolution was a Pandora's Box, unleashing so many of the ills we see today in our culture, including one of the largest — fatherlessness.

On "Lighthouse Faith" podcast, she talks about her book, "Adam and Eve After the Pill, Revisited" (Feb. 2023) in which she writes, "Some people, mainly on the political left, think there is nothing to see here. They are wrong. The vast majority of incarcerated juveniles have grown up in a fatherless home."

She goes on, "Teen and other mass murderers almost invariably have filial rupture in their biographies. Absent fathers predict higher rates of truancy, psychiatric problems, criminality, promiscuity, drug use, rape, domestic violence and other tragic outcomes."

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