"This book is a must-have" for arguing against those "who think the sexual revolution a grand thing."

From David Deavel's review of Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution on the Unique For a Reason—Why Marriage Matters site:

G. K. Chesterton wrote in his 1908 classic Orthodoxy, “The
unpopular parts of Christianity turn out when examined to be the very
props of the people.” The outer crust of Christian reality is a moral
sternness that seems ugly, but makes possible “pagan freedom.” 
Neo-pagans wishing to excise those outer morals have brought on
themselves “despair within.”

This is one of the central paradoxes of Mary Eberstadt’s new book “Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution.”
The sexual revolution made possible by modern, more reliable
contraception came with promises of a world that was emancipated,
free-spirited, and happy. Instead, everywhere embraced, the revolution
has brought a shrinking, aging general population, scores of abused,
abandoned, and aborted children, and unhappiness for men and—most
strikingly—for women.  The despair is within, but its ugly fruits are
everywhere to be seen in anecdotal form and even in the hard data of
thoroughly secular social scientists.

What does the data say?  In contrast to scholars who argued in the
Sixties that contraception would reduce abortion and child abuse,
stabilize marriages and be a barrier to poverty, Eberstadt cites the
work of Lionel
Tiger, which linked contraception to “the breakdown of families, female
impoverishment, trouble in the relationship between the sexes, and
single motherhood.”  Tiger, who views all religion as “toxic,” also explicitly argues that “contraception causes abortion.”

Even Pope Paul VI did not make that last argument in his encyclical Humanae Vitae, reiterating Catholic teaching on contraception. But
he did make four specific predictions: lower moral standards in
society, more infidelity, less respect by men for women, and coercion by
governments to get people to use reproductive technologies. In all four
cases, the Church was right. ...

Eberstadt brings to this book not only a comprehensive knowledge of
social scientific research and a discerning eye for popular culture, but
a wicked sense of humor that helps one laugh a bit at the data that
would otherwise brings tears. She also brings an eye of sanity that is
surely connected to her experience as a wife and mother of four (her
husband, demographer Nicholas Eberstadt, is also a serious Catholic
scholar). This book is a must-have for those who want arguments to use
against people who think the sexual revolution a grand thing. It is also
useful to give to Catholics and other Christians who want to reject the
more outlandish aspects of the revolution but keep contraception.
Eberstadt shows it is, after all, a bitter pill.  And she has the data
of social scientists—who don’t necessarily like the Church that teaches
this truth—to back her up.

Read the entire review. Also:

• The Introduction to Adam and Eve after the Pill
• Visit the website for Adam and Eve after the Pill
• "The Party's Over": A Catholic World Report interview with Mary Eberstadt