The most damaging legacy of the waning 20th century is likely to be the disintegration of the family. Bearing the burden of their own parents' divorces, young adults are marrying later than ever, if at all. Single parenthood has dropped generations of young women into poverty.
Schools are hard-pressed to redeem children of absentee mothers and fathers.
She concludes that the change in women's sexual attitudes and behavior since the 1960s has backfired, reducing sexual freedom to bondage. Traditionally, women controlled sexual relationships. Men competed for their favors, and women made their selection at the appropriate time. Social and religious norms, linked with the fear of pregnancy, required women to confine sexual activity within marriage. But with sex and marriage detached from each other, women increasingly reduced relationships to sexual gratification in the name of equality.