Thanks for the comments! Yes, even in today’s world, I think it is very important to teach children to stay a virgin. It is not only safer, but there is something of a bond that develops with your spouse after your wedding on the first night. It does sound passe, and even restrictive and whatever, but nonetheless it is the right thing to do.

I think when marriage is understood better, it will then be taken more seriously. It is not just a social construct, but a covenant with God.

Brett

I’m glad you’re teaching your daughters to be moral and celibate until marriage (and with deadly STDs out there, you just might be saving their lives!). That’s what I was taught, but not what my husband was taught. His mom was quite upset when she found out that he had had sex, but she had never told him not to — I guess he was just supposed to absorb it from reading her mind? Actively teaching morality and abstinence works, despite what the “comprehensive sex education” crowd wants us to believe. We don’t need studies to prove this — we need merely to look at the social experiment that has been performed on our nation starting in the 1960s. It doesn’t take a genius to look at the way children were raised up through the early 1900s, and see the difference between that and what we have now.

You are so right that marriage is about sacrifice — a word that most people in our country have no concept of.

Thanks for writing this!
Kathy