Trends in American Society in the 1970s

1. Higher Divorce rates

2. Increased Pre-marital Sex

3. Fewer women having children

4. Increase in Couples living together

5. Increased Recognition of Homosexual lifestyle

6. Rise in female-headed households

7. Rise in Drug use

8. Rising crime rates

9. 10 to 15 percent annual inflation rate

10. Increasing costs of energy. Energy Crisis.

11. Growing concern about an environmental crisis

12. Increasing concern about carcinogens in food
and water

13. Declining standard of living

14. Increasing number of women working

15. More equality for Women and Blacks

16. Increasing use of sex to sell products.

17. Decline in mainstream, mainline Christian--
      Protestant and Catholic--church attendance
      among the white, American middle-class.

18. Growth of fundamentalist, evangelical churches--
      Baptist and Methodist--and television ministries
      among Southern whites and American working-class.