If you give them one finger they cut you whole hand.
Interesting that you should use that metaphor. When I was a senior in high school, I had a wonderful teacher who taught a class entitled, simply, Humanities. A comprehensive subject, to be sure.
Every week, she would write a quote from someone in the corner of the blackboard, and we were required to memorize that quote. To this day, I remember many of those quotations. One was, "He who thinks the old embankments useless, and destoys them, is sure to suffer from the desolation caused by overflowing waters." - Confucius.
At that time (1964), it was shameful for an unmarried girl, or woman, to become pregnant. The illegitimacy rate for whites was well down in the single digits, percentage wise; for blacks, low to mid twenties.
Now, of course, there is no stigma whatsoever attached to having out-of-wedlock chidren, and the illegitimacy rates have skyrocketed; mid to high twenties for whites, and 2 out of 3 for blackes.
And we wonder why crime is so prevalent, why our schools don't work, why so many can't read or write, why our society is in general decline. Go figure.
And the process continues.