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(LifeSiteNews) — In 1934, Oxford anthropologist J.D. Unwin published his mammoth magnum opus Sex and Culture, a study of 80 primitive tribes and six civilizations over five millennia. According to Unwin, these case studies prove that when cultures become wealthy, they correspondingly loosen their standards of sexual morality. As a result, societies lose their cohesion as well as their purpose and drive. In short, the success of a society is, according to Unwin, directly tied to the sexual restraint they exercise. Once this is lost, Unwin writes, the die is cast—the decline is irrevocable.

Keep in mind that Unwin produced this study prior to the Sexual Revolution that rocked the West and was thus not commenting on our current cultural circumstances. Now consider the results of a recent survey commissioned by Topp Morning Casino, released last month. 1,000 British mothers were surveyed, and the survey found that “7.8% admitted to lying over the biological lineage of their children.” In short, almost ten percent of mothers in the U.K. do not know who the father of their children is.

“We were shocked,” a spokesperson for the company stated on their website. “This means that there potentially 2.1 million couples in the UK where the father isn’t the biological one.” According to the New York Post, the 2014 Australian documentary series “Who’s Your Daddy?” stated that “up to 30% of paternities are misattributed,” while a 2005 American study “estimated that 4% of American fathers were raising a child that they did not know was not biologically their own.”

Consider these staggering stats in the context of an entire reproductive industry dedicated to creating fatherless or motherless children. In 2011, a ground-breaking film titled Anonymous Father’s Day was released, detailing the struggles of thousands of people seeking to discover their genetic origins. Conceived through artificial insemination with donor semen from sperm banks, the documentary traces the stories of men and women attempting to identify their biological fathers. It is based largely on a study on the subject called “My Daddy’s Name is Donor.”

In short, the Sexual Revolution has transformed the makeup of families in profoundly primal ways. Children are being born into a world where the ground is shifting beneath their feet.

It will never cease striking me as absurd that it has to be said, but it does: Sex makes babies. Babies are best served by growing up in a family headed by a father and a mother. The Sexual Revolution really was a revolution, premised on the insane idea that we could mess around however we like and still live in a peaceful, functioning society. Families are the building blocks of our civilization, and we have been tearing them apart for a half-century now from every side. As we are just beginning to see, there will be hell to pay for this.

In his massive study, Unwin essentially explains that once the fabric of a civilization has been shredded, it cannot be put back together. Once we have liberated ourselves from responsibility and each other, civilizations collapse as the bonds that tie us together are severed. We really are “in this together”—and when we fail to recognize that, the impact is on a civilizational scale. Because as G.K. Chesterton once wisely noted: “The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.”

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Jonathon Van Maren is a public speaker, writer, and pro-life activist. His commentary has been translated into more than eight languages and published widely online as well as print newspapers such as the Jewish Independent, the National Post, the Hamilton Spectator and others. He has received an award for combating anti-Semitism in print from the Jewish organization B’nai Brith. His commentary has been featured on CTV Primetime, Global News, EWTN, and the CBC as well as dozens of radio stations and news outlets in Canada and the United States.

He speaks on a wide variety of cultural topics across North America at universities, high schools, churches, and other functions. Some of these topics include abortion, pornography, the Sexual Revolution, and euthanasia. Jonathon holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in history from Simon Fraser University, and is the communications director for the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform.

Jonathon’s first book, The Culture War, was released in 2016.

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