Eisenstadt, The New Reproductive Technologies and the Single Parent
Two cases of great importance show the evolution of court philosophy on the mores of the American people. It is often argued that the court has little to do with such inOuence and that the argument is e cOn/raria. that is. the court's ethical standards are determined by American mores not vice versa. The following case study will attempt to show the opposite: people's mores are basically inOuenced by a moral choice of the court which tends to legitimatize forms of behavior in society under the rubric of "privacy." Th is has been particularly true in the area of sexual morality which is particularly susceptib le to every expansion of its exercise. There has never been any society which has not mandated sexua l restraint for a who le variety of reasons: religious. economic. patriarchial. etc . Our society. of course. is no exception. We have tended in the past 20 years to expand its