In American law, the “rights revolution” of the last five decades shows scarcely any signs of abating. Federal and state judges continue to invalidate laws on flimsy constitutional grounds, justifying their actions on the basis of invented notions such as “the right to privacy” and strained readings of established legal principles such as the “equal protection of the laws.” In some states, judges effectively wield more power than legislators, as evidenced by the judicial imposition of “same-sex marriage” in Massachusetts (2003) and Connecticut (2008).

Left-leaning judges and their allies in the legal academy have no dearth of causes to champion, especially causes relating to sexual politics. If they achieve today’s overriding goal—redefining marriage in all fifty states—they will soon embark on something else.

Children have been the biggest victims of the sexual revolution.

What might that be? Although it is unlikely to persuade readers who are not already well disposed to the idea, Barbara Bennett Woodhouse’s book provides evidence that a full-fledged “children’s rights” movement could be in the offing.

That a movement for children’s rights would follow a movement for adult “sexual rights” might seem strange, but it shouldn’t. Children have been the biggest victims of the sexual revolution. Today, 36 percent of American kids are born out of wedlock, and suffer appreciably diminished life prospects as a result. Children are now more likely to be subjected to a surfeit of sexual trash, since hard-core pornography has come to receive the same constitutional protection