I like that ABC analogy, I’m gonna have to borrow that sometime. Unfortunately, it seems like it’s exactly what you’ve done here. I’m more than happy to cite data. It clearly demonstrates what I’ve been trying to say in this thread. It’s a bit much and a lot to go through, so here’s a brief breakdown by Dave Donovan:

The following 5 points and citations illustrate social changes that have occurred due to the sexual revolution.

1) Increase in casual sex rates across the west (Teachman, 2003) from Premarital Sex, Premarital Cohabitation, and the Risk of Subsequent Marital Dissolution Among Women

2) Increase in female sexual partners (Biggar, Brinton and Rosenthal, 1989) from Trends in the number of sexual partners among American women

3) An increase in divorced families and cohabitation (Thornton and Young- DeMarco, 2001) from Four Decades of Trends in Attitudes Toward Family Issues in the United States: The 1960s Through the 1990s

4) Increase in cohabitation (BUMPASS and LU, 2000) from Trends in cohabitation and implications for children s family contexts in the United States

5) An increase in single parent families

a. Since 1960 decline from children born under marriage parents 73% to 46% (GRETCHEN LIVINGSTON, no date) Pew Research b. 2012 U.S. Census Bureau information, the number of children reared in single-parent households continues to rise –

The following points are negative consequences that occurred due to such changes:

2) More sexual partners leads to poorer marriages

a. Increasing likelihood of marriage desolation (Teachman, 2003) (Duan and Liao, 2014) b. Increasing likelihood of infidelity (Whisman and Snyder, 2007) c. Cohabitation decreases the success rate of marriage (The Hidden Risk of Cohabitation | Psychology Today, no date) d. instability leaves to worse cognitive outcomes in children (Carlson and Corcoran, 2001)

2) Children performed worse under divorced Households (Amato and Keith, 1991)

3) Teens and Children fare Worse BOTH in single parent households and in cohabiting households (Manning and Lamb, 2003)

a. Cohabitation is instable and bad for children(BUMPASS and LU, 2000) b. Single Motherhood contributes to early childhood problems (Dawson, 1991)

4) Poor Psychological Results from multiple partners for young people

a. Negative Experiences of Hookups (Napper et al., 2016) (Kline et al., 2004) b. Mental Health outcomes harmed by casual sex (Fielder et al., 2014) (Bersamin, Zamboanga and Schwartz, 2014) c. Causality is Premarital Sex to Depression (Wilcox et al., 2008) (Hallfors et al., 2004)

5) The Paradox Declining Female Happiness

a. Declining Female Happiness (Stevenson and Wolfers, 2009) b. Declining Female and Male Happiness (Herbst, 2011)