And, I'm sure you all know the stats on marriage. In the US, more than half of marriages end in divorce, and the odds of a successful marriage plummet the younger the couple is.
I like your point on the effects no-sex-until-marriage, and so this is more or less a tangent of a statement I read in an interesting article yesterday. My mother, sister and I walked to our local(ly run) magazine shop -- it has an awesome selection of stuff and they'll work to get things in, too. Anyways, in addition to picking up The Kite Runner, I also got a magazine called "The Sun." Amidst ad-free pages, the featured interview had the following:
Here’s something disturbing: We can’t survive economically in this country without a high rate of divorce. Social disintegration is required for the economy to work. The family has got to be broken down into independent consumer units. In divorced families, kids often have two homes, two sets of clothes, two sets of toys, two of this, two of that. Unless you undermine stable extended families, unless you regularly change the “answer” to filling a wide range of individual human needs and constantly subdivide those needs, you can’t keep the American consumer juggernaut going.
The connection is flimsy enough, but perhaps this push for abstinence and misunderstanding/ignorance of sex could be a factor in working for the success of the economy... =P =D.
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Date: 2006-07-17 05:40 pm (UTC)I like your point on the effects no-sex-until-marriage, and so this is more or less a tangent of a statement I read in an interesting article yesterday. My mother, sister and I walked to our local(ly run) magazine shop -- it has an awesome selection of stuff and they'll work to get things in, too. Anyways, in addition to picking up The Kite Runner, I also got a magazine called "The Sun." Amidst ad-free pages, the featured interview had the following:
Here’s something disturbing: We can’t survive economically in this country without a high rate of divorce. Social disintegration is required for the economy to work. The family has got to be broken down into independent consumer units. In divorced families, kids often have two homes, two sets of clothes, two sets of toys, two of this, two of that. Unless you undermine stable extended families, unless you regularly change the “answer” to filling a wide range of individual human needs and constantly subdivide those needs, you can’t keep the American consumer juggernaut going.
The connection is flimsy enough, but perhaps this push for abstinence and misunderstanding/ignorance of sex could be a factor in working for the success of the economy... =P =D.