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===Responses===
===Responses===
Reactions to moral decline in America have been varied. The [[liberal media]] and places of "higher" education (such as [[Harvard University]]) overall treat the 60's sexual revolution as beneficial change, and victory for its liberal ethos.
Reactions to moral decline in America have been varied. The [[liberal media]] and places of "higher" education (such as [[Harvard University]]) overall treat the 60's sexual revolution as a beneficial change, and a victory for its liberal ethos.
A rare dissenting voice among [[Democrats]] was moderately conservative [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]], who wrote Defining Deviancy Down (1993), which argued that due to the moral deregulation of the 1960s,
In contrast were conservatives, with the most consistent voices of opposition being Evangelical preachers of righteousness, exhorting repentance toward God and faith toward Jesus Christ. Moral separation from worldly living was enjoined, and some engaged social problems more directly, in actively opposing slavery in America, and evils such as drunkenness.
A rare dissenting voice among [[Democrats]] was moderately conservative [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]], who wrote ''Defining Deviancy Down'' (1993), which argued that due to the moral deregulation of the 1960s,
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there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos. Crime, violence, unrest, unrestrained lashing out at the whole social structure - that is not only to be expected; it is very near to inevitable.
there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos. Crime, violence, unrest, unrestrained lashing out at the whole social structure - that is not only to be expected; it is very near to inevitable.
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==See also==
==See also==