‘Stumbling Toward Utopia’: How the 1960s Took a Wrecking Ball to American Family
19th September 2024
Up until the 1960s, the traditional nuclear family—one man, one woman, and at least one child—was seen as the societal ideal.
But in the 1960s, the American family came under withering attack and has never been the same since—resulting in myriad societal problems that seem to spiral increasingly downward with each passing year.
The Great Society “reforms” devastated the African American family, as men no longer had to be responsible for the children they fathered as long as the government was there to subsidize their promiscuity.
Check the history of ‘baby mama’ and ‘baby daddy’ if you don’t believe it.
Coupled with legalized abortion, men could simply walk away from a woman they impregnated because the “problem” of a child could just be disposed of by going to the local Planned Parenthood office.
And women decided that they didn’t need to be picky any more regarding the guys they had sex with. Anything goes!
No-fault divorce laws were proposed, and then passed, under the pretense of making divorce more amicable and less traumatic. Instead, divorce rates skyrocketed, devastating generations of children who saw their worlds torn apart when mom and dad decided they did not want to remain together anymore.
In 70% of cases, it was mom who didn’t want to stay with dad any more. This is why the country is crowded with single mothers who are looking for stepdads and not finding them.
As Brad Wilcox of the Institute for Family Studies states, “Prior to the late 1960s, Americans were more likely to look at marriage and family through the prisms of duty, obligation, and sacrifice. … But the [1960s] psychological revolution’s focus on individual fulfillment and personal growth changed all that. Increasingly, marriage was seen as a vehicle for a self-oriented ethic of romance, intimacy, and fulfillment.”
And this is still the case today. Women are raised to be Disney Princesses: Find your Prince and live happily ever after, just the two of you.