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Family Breakdown and Civilization DeclineArnold ToynbeeDr. Joseph Daniel UnwinPitirim SorokinDr. CarleZimmermanHistorical Research – Important Lessons from History

Family Breakdown leads to Social InstabilityImportant Lessons from HistoryImmorality leads to family breakdownFamily breakdown leads to social instabilitySocial instability leads to the decline of the civilizationAldous HuxleyArnold ToynbeePitirim SorokinDr. Carle Zimmerman

Family Breakdown leads to Social WIFE Sexual promiscuity, infidelity, andpornography lead to sexuallytransmitted disease, divorce, andfamily breakdown Family breakdown underminessocial stability, good citizenship,educational development, andcontributes to crime, youth alienation,and suicide. To build a world of lasting peace,we need to restore true love, trueparenthood, and true familyModern statistics support many of these propositions. But are there historicalinvestigations over long periods of time that prove such premises?

Family breakdown and Civilization declineHistorian Arnold Toynbeeobserved,“Out of twenty-one notablecivilizations, nineteenperished not by conquestfrom without but by moraldecay from within.”Arnold ToynbeeSource: Why Character Matters: How to Help OurChildren Develop Good Judgment, Integrity andOther Essential Virtues - By Thomas Lickona

Family breakdown and Civilization declineDr. Joseph D.UnwinBritish ethnologist and social anthropologist at OxfordUniversity and Cambridge University, Joseph DanielUnwin MC (1895 - 1936) conducted a massive study of 6 majorcivilizations and 80 lesser societies covering 5,000 years of history . Heset out his study expecting to find evidence supporting SigmundFreud’s theory that civilizations are essentially neurotic and destroythemselves by restricting sex too much. But to Unwin’s surprise, allthe evidence he discovered pointed exactly to opposite conclusions.In his exhaustive examination of sexual behavior and theiraffect upon society, Unwin observed that monogamouscultures prosper and those disinclined to restrain sex tomonogamous marriage remain primitive or, if oncesuccessful, they decline.Joseph Daniel Unwin - Main Works:Sigmund Freud(1856-1939)Sex and Culture (London: Oxford University Press, 1934);Sexual Regulations and Cultural Behavior (London: Oxford University Press, 1935)Hopousia: Or the Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society (London:George Allen and Unwin, 1940).

Family breakdown and Civilization decline“Sexual Regulations and Cultural Behavior” by Joseph Daniel Unwin, Ph.D.,Address given March 27, 1935, to the Medical Section of the British Psychological Society“Thousands of years and thousands of miles separate theevents; and there is no apparent connection betweenthem. In human records, there is no case of an absolutelymonogamous society failing to display great [cultural]energy. I do not know of a case on which great energy hasbeen displayed by a society that has not been absolutelymonogamous ”“The whole of human history does not contain a singleinstance of a group becoming civilized unless it has beenabsolutely monogamous, nor is there any example of agroup retaining its culture after it has adopted lessrigorous customs.”Dr. Joseph Daniel Unwin(Unwin, J. D. (1927). "Monogamy as a Condition of SocialEnergy,” The Hibbert Journal, Vol. XXV, p. 662.)

Family breakdown and Civilization decline“Unwin's conclusions, which are based upon anenormous wealth of carefully sifted evidence, may be summedup as follows. All human societies are in one or another of sixcultural conditions: zoistic, manistic, deistic, rationalistic,expansive, productive. Of these societies the zoistic displaysthe least amount of mental and social energy, the productivethe most. Investigation shows that the societiesexhibiting the least amount of energy are thosewhere pre-nuptial continence is not imposed andwhere the opportunities for sexual indulgence aftermarriage are greatest. The cultural condition of asociety rises in exact proportion as it imposes prenuptial and post-nuptial restraints upon sexualopportunity.”(Huxley, Aldous (1946). "Ethics." In: Ends and Means. London: Chatto & Windus, pp. 311–12.)

Family breakdown and Civilization declineDr. Joseph Daniel Unwin, discovered:“Absolute monogamy” generates“social energy”Dr. Joseph Daniel UnwinSocieties with high levels of “social energy” progressin every category of creative growth. This would beexpressed in all areas of culture such as economics,science, justice, education, arts, and so on When the levels of what he called “absolute monogamy” were compromisedby the increase pre-nuptial (premarital) and post-nuptial (extramarital)continence, such society decline in the span of three generationsWhat is surprising and worrying, Unwin says: I know of no exceptions to these rules!!!

Dr. Unwin's studies were interrupted by his death at age abs/138234b0.htmNature 138, 234-234 (08 August 1936) doi:10.1038/138234b0Obituary - Dr. Joseph Daniel Unwin August 8,1936WE regret to record the death of Dr. J. D. Unwin,anthropologist and head of Cambridge House, theUniversity social settlement in south London, whichtook place after an operation at the age of forty years.Unwin died before fully developing histheory of ‘the sexual foundations of a newsociety,’ but the incomplete results werepublished in another book, 'Hopousia,' withan introduction by Aldous Huxley.”Hopousia: Or the Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society(London: George Allen and Unwin, 1940).

Dr. Unwin's studies were interrupted by his death at age 40Aldous HuxleyAldoux Huxley writes in the introduction ofHOPOUSIA: Or the Sexual and EconomicFoundations of a New Society :“J. D. Unwin, whose untimely death in 1936 deprivedthe world of a mind at once original and methodical,unorthodox and sound, was one who liked to stressthe spiral and undulatory nature of human history.”“ At the time of his death Unwin was at work on asequel to his Sex and Culture. This book of whichthe unfinished fragments are now being publishedunder the title Hopousia, treats at length of a singlequestion: What are the conditions which must befulfilled if a society is to go on displaying maximumenergy for an indefinite period? .”

Family breakdown and Civilization declineDr. Pitirim A. Sorokin - Founder of the Department ofSociology at Harvard University - 55th President of the AmericanSociological Association.Following J. D. Unwin's Sex andCulture, Sorokin asserts thatsocieties tend to blossom, becreative, and grow when the sexualmores favor exclusivity, monogamy,fidelity, responsibility, and familystability. Conversely, when moresencourage permissiveness, sexualexploration, serial monogamy, easydivorce, and brief and changeablefamily relationships (particularly withchildren), then societies becomeunstable and alienating, and theydecline.The American Sex Revolution (Boston: Porter Sargent Publishers, 1956)

“The appearance ofthis little book is dueto a voluminousreaction of thereaders to my article,'The Case AgainstSex Freedom,"published in ThisWeek Magazine,January 3, 1954.Sorokin, PitirimThe Article discusses the impact of sexual revolution on American society. Published 1954

Family breakdown and Civilization declinePitirim Sorokin wrote of his own country's revolution:"During the first stage of the Revolution, itsleaders deliberately attempted to destroymarriage and the family. Free love was glorifiedby the official 'glass of water' theory. If a personis thirsty, so went the Party line, it is immaterialwhat glass he uses when satisfying his thirst; it isequally unimportant how he satisfies his sexhunger. The legal distinction between marriageDr. Sorokin, Pitirimand casual sexual intercourse was abolished.The Communist law spoke only of contracts between males and females forthe satisfaction of their desires either for an indefinite or a definite period, ayear, a month, a week, or even for a single night. One could marry anddivorce as many times as desired. Husband and wife could obtain a divorcewithout the other being notified. It was not even necessary that marriage beregistered. Bigamy and even polygamy were permissible under the newprovisions. Premarital relations were praised and extramarital relationswere considered normal.

Family breakdown and Civilization declineWithin a few years, hordes of wild, homelesschildren became a menace to the Soviet Union.Millions of lives, especially of young girls, werewrecked; divorces sky-rocketed, as did abortions.The hatreds and conflicts among polygamous andpolyandrous mates rapidly mounted--and so didpsychoneurosis.Dr. Sorokin, PitirimThe results were so appalling that the governmentwas forced to reverse its policy. The propaganda ofthe 'glass of water' theory was declared to becounter-revolutionary, and its place was taken byofficial glorification of premarital chastity and of thesanctity of marriage.Considering that the whole cycle occurred under asingle regime, the experiment is highly informative.It clearly shows the destructive consequences ofunlimited sexual freedom."

Family breakdown and Civilization declineHarvard sociologist Dr. PitirimSorokin, analyzing studies of culturesspanning several thousand years onseveral continents, found that virtuallyall political revolutions that broughtabout societal collapse were precededby a sexual revolution in whichmarriage and family were devaluedPitirim SorokinSorokin, Pitirim -The American Sex Revolution (Boston: Porter Sargent Publishers, 1956)

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Family breakdown and Civilization neIn 1947, Harvard sociologist Dr. Carle Zimmerman wrote“Family and Civilization.” He studied the decline ofseveral civilizations and empires, discovering eightpatterns of domestic behavior that signaled the decline ofa civilization:1. The breakdown of marriage and rise of divorce.2. The loss of the traditional meaning of the marriage ceremony.3. The rise of Feminism.4. Increased public disrespect for parents and authority in general.5. Acceleration of juvenile delinquency, promiscuity and rebellion.6. Refusal of people with traditional marriages to accept their familyresponsibilities.7. A growing desire for and acceptance of adultery.8. Increasing interest in and spread of sexual perversions(homosexuality) and sex-related crimes.

Family breakdown and Civilization declineDr. Zimmerman identified eleven ‘symptoms of final decay’ observable in thefall of both the Greek and Roman civilizations. See how many characterize oursociety:1. No-fault divorce2. “Birth dearth”; increased disrespect for parenthoodand parents3. Meaningless marriage rites/ceremonies4. Defamation of past national heroes5. Acceptance of alternative marriage forms6. Widespread attitudes of feminism, narcissism,hedonism7. Propagation of antifamily sentiment8. Acceptance of most forms of adultery9. Rebellious childrenDr. Carle10. Increased juvenile delinquencyZimmerman11. Common acceptance of all forms of sexual perversion

Family breakdown and Civilization decline“When the number of single parent familiesreaches about 30%, the community beginsto break down, and the rate of crime beginsto soar. The community changes from asupportive environment to one thatjeopardizes the development of children.whenever there is too high a concentrationof broken families in any community, thatcommunity will disintegrate.Patrick FaganPatrick Fagan, The Heritage Foundation - “The Breakdown of the Family”

Family breakdown and Civilization declineEssay: The real root-causes of violent crimeCONCLUSION“The professional literature of criminology issurprisingly consistent on the real root causes ofviolent crime: the breakdown of the family andcommunity stability. The sequence has its deepestroots in the absence of stable marriage.”Patrick Fagan, The Heritage FoundationPatrick ime