> Within the liberal tradition, a doctrine that discernibly initiated the process of decline in male/female relations is the view that men and women are essentially the same.

Is this less preferable to a system where women are a few steps above chattel? I think the increased freedom and self-determination the sexual revolution has afforded women is well worth the ills found in modern dating.

If marriage and child-rearing is something you would like to see more, make the material conditions more suitable for that and it will happen.