Sex before marriage okay

A mericans love to tout the value of waiting until marriage to have sex. We teach abstinence-only education in schools across the country, and even comprehensive sex-ed programs often point out that "abstinence is best. There's a booming "purity industry", complete with jewelry, elaborate events, books, t-shirts and DVDs. Our state and federal tax dollars have long been spent promoting "chastity".

Just in the past decade, the number of "nonfamily" households rose at twice the rate of family households. Similarly, the percentage of single-mother families rose three times as fast as married-couple families. So what is the American value structure underlying these important lifestyle trends? In order for there to be a high rate of nuclear families in the U. Recent Gallup polling focused on values and beliefs sheds light on how Americans feel about some of these factors. In the days when pre-marital sex was taboo, many couples had at least one powerful incentive to marry.

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This season on The Bachelorette gave us a real-life eye-opening look into the full range of where most Christians fall on sex before marriage. If you are a Christian, where do you fall in the sex before marriage argument? Statistics state that 80 percent of unmarried evangelical young adults 18 to 29 say they are having sex.