It is my privilege to welcome Marge Hendry as my guest blogger today. Marge is an artist, pro-life warrior and parish catechist. She resides in New York state.
The Contraception Tree
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| (Image © Marge Hendrey) |
In the 1960's the creation and
acceptance of new contracepting devices, i.e. the pill, I.U.D., etc., helped
promote the sexual revolution. Since then, as the Contraceptive Tree demonstrates,
social norms previously understood as for the good have come to mean less and
less.
Generally, it seems safe to say
the family before the 1960's was protected by its own borders of wisdom and
chastity. Sex was understood to belong in married life because that is where
its fruits could be the best protected -not only the fruit of children but also
the fruit of sanctity of "mother" and "father”. Since most
people lived by that standard, that is the sanctity of married life for the
protection of family, the problems that arose from the lack of adherence were
fewer and farther between.
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