" Seen from this perspective, the sexual revolution is to the family what Communism is to the market. Both entail statist assaults on core institutions of civil society, leading to human misery that the state is not equipped to put right. In both cases, what results from the erosion of a core institution is a citizenry ill-equipped to be self-governing; accordingly, state power inevitably grows. "

― Jean Bethke Elshtain , The Meaning Of Marriage: Family, State, Market, And Morals