Posted on March 20th, 2012 by Love and Fidelity Network
Share On March 3, the Love and Fidelity Network cosponsored a day-long conference with the Muslim Life Program and AltMuslimah.com called “Courtship, Marriage, and Divorce: The American Muslim Happily Ever After.” This event brought together a diverse group of thinkers ranging from community activists and academics to religious leaders and professionals to discuss the common [...]
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Posted on February 21st, 2012 by Love and Fidelity Network
Share Abstract The period of time referred to as “emerging adulthood” has been redefined, allowing young adults to alter their goals and lifestyles. Marriage is no longer viewed as an essential step to adulthood, nor is it greatly valued. With these changes in today’s culture, young adults have been allowed to give in to their [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2012 by Love and Fidelity Network
Share Sources: “Using the March 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we estimated standard human capital regressions, expanded to include race, Hispanic origin, and presence of children. Among men, ages 25-49, the coefficient on being married implied a 34 percent earnings advantage over the never-married, a 25 percent advantage over separated men, and a 21 percent [...]
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Posted on February 8th, 2012 by Love and Fidelity Network
ShareToday, the Love and Fidelity Network is pleased to introduce an intercollegiate advertising campaign with the prominent tagline “My sexual choices now are making a difference.” This campaign–presented by 19 colleges and universities (including five Ivy Leagues) through 9,000 posters–sends the message that college students’ current sexual choices can increase their confidence in achieving other [...]
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Posted on December 6th, 2011 by Love and Fidelity Network
Despite the issues that these two respondents pose to Shanahan and Morgan’s research, the fact that I can only really conclude that two subjects had hookups evidences the fact that hookups are not nearly as widespread as they are thought to be. Members of the hookup culture are a minority on Duke’s campus, just as they are in my data, representing only 6% of the sample.
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Posted on November 22nd, 2011 by Love and Fidelity Network
In this environment, the man or woman who stands up and declares “I dissent” can be profoundly discomfiting. You are those people. And you are discomfiting precisely because all sides understand that by dissenting you are saying that the prevailing orthodoxy is false, that there is a better path to a happy and fulfilling life. That is a radical stand on most college campuses today. And like all radicals willing to accept the consequences of their principles, you inspire a mix of admiration and fear.
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Posted on November 8th, 2011 by Love and Fidelity Network
Most women still want to be princesses, and most men still seek to win a woman’s heart. Hefner and Sanger diminished the person to the mere sum of parts, yet we know that men and women are remarkable and multifarious, fantastic and so much more. There is still magic in the differences of the sexes—and what a joy it is to encounter them! Indeed, our world contains the possibility of being radically altered by this ‘other,’ who, through the eyes of love, suddenly becomes much larger than we saw before.
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Posted on June 23rd, 2011 by Love and Fidelity Network
Chastity is not simply a courtesy owed women. Nor is it a mechanism by which women can exchange sex for a promise of lifelong protection. Rather, it is a holistic treatment of the human person in accord with reality.
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Posted on April 21st, 2011 by Love and Fidelity Network
We like Austen’s novels, I think, precisely because we are dissatisfied with the norms and rituals that govern our interactions with each other, especially our romantic ones. If we like innocent flirting at country balls, as our penchant for Austen suggests, we must also, on some level, dislike drunken hook-ups after games of pong.
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Posted on April 5th, 2011 by Love and Fidelity Network
ShareWhen considering the practices of courting and marrying, one might suppose that evaluating them in their historical setting is irrelevant; one could, after all, know that courtship entails “sitting on the porch with a farmer’s daughter,” or—vaguely—“a somewhat ritualized practice pertaining to the proper socialization of romantic affection.” Indeed, courtship could seem rather archaic, especially [...]
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