Thus for the sake of the children, parents worked things out until the children left home. I remember when Murphy Brown had her baby and Vice President Dan Quale made the remark about the importance of fathers to children. The news media excoriated Dan Quale for his dinosaur approach to family life. There is an element in our society that treats married two-parent families as a sickness in our society. Our sexual revolution has caused our intellectuals to normalize what was once considered deviant behaviour and to call traditional values deviant.
Next society discovers that adultery is a primary cause of the breakdown of our social order.
Adultery turns millions of father's hearts from their children. These children experience the intense pain of abandonment and become prime candidates of juvenile delinquency. Today we have legions of disillusioned youth not knowing how to deal with the anger they have been repressing for years. There is a growing body of evidence that is totaling the real cost of the last thirty years of permissiveness. She stated that in the 70s, most experts believed that divorce was like a bad cold.