Pre-marital "you-know-what"

You also have to keep in mind that not everyone here was saved prior to marriage. I didn't come to the Lord until I was 22, had been married for almost four years, and had a two year old daughter.

 

Regardless of one's status of salvation, statistically speaking: fewer people engage in premarital sex and other risky behaviors than most cultural scientists like. The cultural scientists seem to want to encourage everyone else to sin, so that they feel like they are having 'fun.'

Statistically, some people have always had premarital sex (usually around 60-70%). Statistically, (even with all of the pressure of the last 40 years) almost half of the young people today do not practice pre-marital sex.

The big cultural difference between now and 100 years ago is that those that do have pre-marital sex have many more partners than they did 50 or 100 years ago.

 

Really? Scientists want to encourage premarital relations? WOW! Where did you get this from?

Got any sources for these "statistics"?

 

Nope. Never engaged in such until I was married when I was 38 years old.

 

MP

Would you define a 'social scientist' so that I know how you define them?

Sources? It is called study. Try it - you might learn a couple of things.

 

I think one of the biggest differences is that now people are more open about it, they don't mind the whole world knowing. Long ago, 50-100 years you just didn't tell anyone, it wasn't socially acceptable, I guess.

 

you can teach a kid, but they make their own choices, I know from experience (my kids not me).

 

lot of babies being born out of wedlock. wonder why?

Since 1970, out-of-wedlock birth rates have soared. In 1965, 24 percent of black infants and 3.1 percent of white infants were born to single mothers. By 1990 the rates had risen to 64 percent for black infants, 18 percent for whites. Every year about one million more children are born into fatherless families. If we have learned any policy lesson well over the past 25 years, it is that for children living in single-parent homes, the odds of living in poverty are great. The policy implications of the increase in out-of-wedlock births are staggering

 

So you got nothin'. Again, quit being evasive and quote your sources for the assertions you made. YOU brought up social scientists. Let's have it.

 

Yeah. Good thing the media isn't trying to program our kids, huh?

 

I would love to agree with you, but I don't think the facts play out the way you say they do. Take a look at this study done by the Kaiser Foundation. If you look at the footnotes, various information is cited from the CDC. http://www.kff.org/youthhivstds/upload/U-S-Teen-Sexual-Activity-Fact-Sheet.pdf

Take a look at the percentage by 12th grade; 62% had intercourse by that time.

 

Page 1, LH column, 2/3 way down. 62% of 12th graders have engaged in intercourse.

(Being careful here) And even though numbers are lower than some might think...keep in mind that there can be that disconnect...large numbers of kids might not have "gone all the way" but have participated in other activities that we would say are sexual in nature.

 

Thats why I think our poll results are as they are

 

You're very welcome, RBell pointed out the 62% citation. I really would like to think people aren't doing it, but I look at the 62% that say they've had intercourse by the end of high school and then I think about college rolling around. I'm not surprised by the OP's article simply because of this: If 60+ percent have sex by the start of college (not to mention the other things being done) and the average person gets married at the age of 27 or so, that leaves the college years and post-college years open for activity. I know from my experience in high school, many people wanted to have sex but didn't for one reason or another.