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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	Are We Surprised?
	Date:	1/16/2011 10:10:17 AM

I struggle with this. On one hand, I totally agree with you. But, I also have a nagging feeling that our moral convictions of the past were something of a smokescreen. Is it morally better to be forced into a marriage because of pregnancy? Or to have pregnancy hidden away (ie.sending pregnant teenagers off to a home for unwed mothers and forcing adoption?) Or to stay in a marriage that is really bad, perhaps abusive, for the sake of not getting a divorce? I struggle with this.

I do definitely agree that people do give up on the marriages and exchange partners like it is of no consequence. It's a lot of work to have a good marriage and one has to take the hard times with the good times. Part of it is that so many women have their own income and an amount of financial independence, people no longer see a reason to tough it out. Particuliarly with the advent of "no fault" divorces.

With regard to the out of wedlock births, people used to get married at a much younger age. There was a time when women married routinely at age 16-18. The majority of people didn't go to college, so they married younger. That took care of the raging hormone problem.

And then there is that sex is out there. On TV, movies, you can't pick up a magazine without seeing an article about sexy or sex. (something you would never have seen in my Grandmother's McCalls or Ladies Home Journal).