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But the profits do not stop with the production of babies; not at all. For the mother and father to be deriving deep satisfaction from their activities is one of the best things that can happen to a child growing up in a home. The happiness of the parents, the rightness of their commitment, their fun, rubs off on the child and has a great deal to do with determining whether he will be a healthy and happy person for the rest of his life. Indeed, the happy marriage and relations of the parents constitute the best thing that can be done to insure happy marriage and relations for the child in his turn. It's the old snowball again: good in a good marriage produces good and good marriages from generation unto generation; poor in non-marriages (the licensed as well as the unlicensed) tends to perpetuate itself likewise.

But we are not done yet; profit can be compounded to achieve fantastic increments. that is used to make a husband and wife more committed to each other and to their family produces a well-being that rubs off not only on their children but on the world at large, rightly applied, can be a major force in moving our untidyverse toward a universe.

That may strike you as a rather extravagant claim and a glob of high-flown religious nonsense. It is not; it is a scientific conclusion based on sound empirical evidence. A British social anthropologist, J. D. Unwin, spent seven years making a very extensive and detailed historical study of eighty different cultures old and young. His findings were then confirmed by the further researches of Pitirim Sorokin. The conclusion is that "civilization and culture depend on the regulation of expression and the confinement of intercourse to monogamous homes, and that where people are'free' and permissive, their culture deteriorates."

when its power is channeled through commitment, works toward bringing people together, building them into the social patterns that make for a harmonious, smoothly operating whole. when it is turned loose simply to seek experience, dissolves society into a swarm of isolated atoms. It is clear that we presently live in a society where the tendency is toward fragmentation rather than coalescence. Nevertheless, there is in this society a youth subculture which professes great concern about building a world of brotherhood, justice, peace, and love. Even so, this same subculture includes the proposal of going the route of increased permissiveness. But this is to try to ride off in two different directions at the same time; it won't work. Puritan goals cannot be achieved by Impuritan means.

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