Today, ... all lies in ruin. The Lockean family model has now delivered low fertility and depopulation; a massive retreat from marriage (by heterosexuals, at least); a surge in what we once quaintly called “illegitimate births”; a growing horde of fatherless, unemployable, and unmarriageable young men; the complete triumph of sexual radicalism; and a new totalitarianism, imposing the once strange ideas of “gay marriage” and transgenderism on all, especially children. The speed at which this transition has occurred has been staggering.
What went wrong? The problem, I believe, can be found in the contradictions of liberal ideology itself...
(T)o gain the equality promised them by liberalism, women must overcome their maternal instincts—they must break their “affective ties” to children, to fellow humans, and to nature itself. At that point, the liberal contract breaks down. As women renounce their innate purpose, men lose their artificially created one, and the liberal marriage system dissolves...
(L)iberalism undermined the one force that actually allowed its family model to work. The Lockean family could flourish only within an atmosphere informed by Christian faith. But liberalism and liberals insist on subjecting every social practice to rational analysis. Such practices under scrutiny have most certainly included all traditional understandings of marriage and family that stem from Christian doctrine, which liberal skepticism has worked relentlessly to deconstruct. Liberalism has now consumed almost all of the moral capital provided by the Christian Faith. As a result, the flaws and internal contradictions of liberal society are being set loose, with the dire consequences described earlier.
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