[MysticLlama]

Now for my other tirade, the thing about morals.

I'd like to completely agree that if everyone had morals and waited until marriage, that things would be better.

On the other hand, that doesn't really make practical sense.

I come from an extremely strict religious background, and sex before marriage actually did occur very rarely. Nobody lived together before getting married obviously either.

The problem with this is that from 17 on, everyone was in a rush to get married. Courtships often lasted for 3-6 months before the wedding, and even in 6 months, there was usually only a handful of hours that the couple could spend together to get to know each other. (Outside of the phone or something)

This fosters a couple of things. 1.) Couples getting married too soon, and ending up miserable a couple years into it, and raising kids in a less than stellar environment. and 2.) Divorces, also messing up the kids. (Usually number 1 happened, because divorces were extremely frowned upon)

By the time most people made it to 25, either the good girls were gone because they were snatched up at 18, or they were single mothers or single with baggage heaped on from the divorce.

Better morals would sure help a lot, and I keep my potential for making a baby to committed relationships (but before the point of marriage), but waiting until after marriage at all isn't the end-all be-all.

Disclaimer: I don't have any kids, but I was married young and divorced, a lot of it to do with family situations and all of this stuff.