Our society learns from mistakes, including the so-called Sexual Revolution of the 60s and 70s. In some ways, we benefited from a more open and free attitude toward sex. But we also paid quite a dear price in the form of disease, heartbreak, and many of the social problems we are awash in today. But now we are about to see the pendulum swing in the opposite direction, I believe. It won't ever go back to where it was before, but corrections need to be made.
Society definitely has a stake in what happens to families.
When our neighbor's children are not being guided and loved by both their father and their mother, then those children will almost certainly become a problem for the community. My own son cries for his father. Divorce is a tragedy. Churches, too, share a lot of blame for this divorce epidemic. Sheryl King Amen.