>In the 70s I would have been imprisoned for being gay, was that “right” because society deems it so?

It seems like that would be a yes, because it's doing what you want, following your natural desires, against the will / benefit of society.

Then by your own logic

>Killing is a common example of what is wrong, since if everyone killed no one would remain.

At the most basic concept, if everyone was gay then society / humans would cease to exist after the final generation.

You can even step back and say if everyone just gave into the basic sexual desires society would be worse off. it's sort of what the article implies. Ultimately the single women with kids is because people aren't doing what society deems right and having long-term monogamous relationships. We see the effect is that the children ultimately have worse outcomes.

So it seems clear that the answer to your question would be yes, but of course you can go further and say, is "prison" ever right? Or right in that case?

It is a bit sad you got downvoted because what you say follows logic and that's all there is to it. The gay people have won the ideology war and got strong political support right now, but truthfully being gay is not something that should be encouraged or supported because as you say, in the long term it has unbelievably bad outcome for the survival of our species. It is the same for single mothers, and my belief formed by my own experience, is that they bear lots of responsibility for the bad outcomes, but you can't say so...

My own mother decided to separate from my father for her own profit, to be able to do whatever she wanted to do, whenever she wanted to. She proceeded to neglect my brother and I at the most crucial time of our growth and simultaneously blamed my father for everything. Both my brother and I have suffered bad outcomes, considering the potential and other variables. And that is with her being a pretty high-income woman (top 10% consistently). Now I am at a time in my life where I'm starting to look back on history and various facts resurface that make me understand things in a new light. I am at the point where I wonder how such an irresponsible woman even got allowed to have all the power other us.

There is something extremely wrong with our current society where women are allowed all the rights with none of the responsibility. In my opinion, such news/statistic is just the tip of the iceberg, it is something really easy to observe with no study anyway (you need the study because otherwise you will be called all kind of name for daring to hold women to any kind of standard). The problems run much deeper than that and it is way too late to do much; it will take major events to bring meaningful change.