I just read the entire article. That is an excellent, short essay describing the brief descent of the Soviets into family destruction and sexual revolution. Thanks for posting that.
The results in the USSR were shocking: “...by 1923, half of the children born in Moscow had been conceived out of wedlock, and many of them were abandoned in infancy.”
In my family genealogy research, I found my own grandmother conceived her first child out of wedlock in 1920 in Germany. They got married before the baby was born, though, unlike people in Moscow 800 miles to the east. Nihilism was understandably rampant in Germany after the horrors of WW I.
And here we are at the same destination in the USA in 2022 (except widespread abortion didn’t mean so many infants were abandoned as in Moscow).
A newborn was abandoned on a doorstep here in Coeur d’Alene just last week, though. That is a rarity.
I think we are already beyond the half born out of wedlock stage.