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 12th, 2012 by Love and Fidelity Network
Share Source: “Regardless of population subgroup (age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, education, income, or nativity) or health indicator (fair or poor health, limitations in activities, low back pain, headaches, serious psychological distress, smoking, or leisure-time physical inactivity), married adults were generally found to be healthier than adults in other marital status categories. Marital status differences [...]
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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 10th, 2012 by Love and Fidelity Network
Share Direct source: “Model 3 includes a dichotomous variable measuring premarital sex and indicates that women who had their first sexual encounter prior to first marriage are about 34% more likely to experience marital dissolution at each point in their marriages (and for each year that they delay sex, the risk of marital disruption is [...]
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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 20th, 2011 by Love and Fidelity Network
ShareThe Macy’s on 34th Street in New York City boasts a bright, glittery, larger-than-life sign that says “Believe”. Indeed, this is the season for belief, and as people bustle around, making purchases and catching up with family and friends, or taking some well-deserved time off, we invite you to think about this concept of “belief.” [...]
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Posted on November 29th, 2011 by Love and Fidelity Network
ShareWe are told that these are the best four years of life. Visibly eager, and almost impossibly energetic, the recent high school graduate fantasizes about the ideas he will learn and the experiences he will live in this new utopia without limits and free from the dreaded specter of authority figures quelling fun and life [...]
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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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