Junior Anti-Sex League

Ross Douthat on the pathetically bourgeois concepts of marriage & family:

So it isn’t just contraception that delays childbearing in liberal states, and it isn’t just a foolish devotion to abstinence education that leads to teen births and hasty marriages in conservative America. It’s also a matter of how plausible an option abortion seems, both morally and practically, depending on who and where you are.

Whether it’s attainable for most Americans or not, the “blue family” model clearly works: it leads to marital success and material prosperity, and it’s well suited to our mobile, globalized society.

By comparison, the “red family” model can look dysfunctional — an uneasy mix of rigor and permissiveness, whose ideals don’t always match up with the facts of contemporary life.

But it reflects something else as well: an attempt, however compromised, to navigate post-sexual revolution America without relying on abortion.

Why isn't it "just contraception?" The "sexual revolution" was predicated on the availability of reliable contraception, not abortion, which remained illegal during the early days of said revolution. Perhaps Mr. Douthat should take his bullshit to First Things, where his brain-dead Catholicism won't interfere w/ the facts of contemporary life.