Adam and Eve After the Pill Quotes

“In a well-known 1996 article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Akerlof explained, using the language of modern economics, why the sexual revolution—contrary to common prediction, especially prediction by those in and out of the Church who wanted the teaching on birth control changed—had led to an increase in both illegitimacy and abortion.4”
― Mary Eberstadt, Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution

“Between bad ideas of gender neutrality and even worse ideas of the innocence of pornography, we reach the world so vividly described by so many dissatisfied women today, one where men act like stereotypical women, and retreat from real relationships into a fantasy life via pornography (rather than Harlequin novels), and where women conversely act like stereotypical men, taking the lead in leaving their marriages and firing angry charges on the way, out of frustration and withheld sex.”
― Mary Eberstadt, Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution

“Equally eyebrow-raising, at least in secular circles, is his linking of contraception to the breakdown of families, female impoverishment, trouble in the relationship between the sexes, and single motherhood. Tiger has further argued—as Humanae Vitae did not explicitly, though other works of theology have—that “contraception causes abortion”.10”
― Mary Eberstadt, Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution

“In sum, although a few apologists still insist otherwise, just about everyone else in possession of the evidence acknowledges that the sexual revolution has weakened family ties, and that family ties (put simply, the presence of a biologically related mother and father in the home) have turned out to be important indicators of child well-being—and more, that the broken home is not just a problem for individuals but also for society.”
― Mary Eberstadt, Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution