One of the prime advantages of having a stay-at-home wife, or being one, is the ability to homeschool your children. You don’t need daycare, government school, or private school — all either bad or expensive options — to take care of your children while you are away at work. Not only do you save aContinue reading “Duties of the Young Wife #7: Getting Ready to Homeschool”
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Not So Many Hookups
A recent survey by the Harvard Graduate School of Education found that fewer than 10% of college students reported having four or more sex partners in the last year. In a different survey, 34% of college students reported not having sex at all in the past year. Atlantic Magazine on the “Sex Recession,” December 2018AtlanticContinue reading “Not So Many Hookups”
Advice to Virgin Men on Their Wedding Night
Since Lori Alexander did a nice item on “advice to virgins on their wedding night,” I thought I would add something. In the past, women were expected to be virgins on their wedding night. Men were also expected to be virgins; but, if they weren’t, that was OK too, as long as they didn’t haveContinue reading “Advice to Virgin Men on Their Wedding Night”
The Younger Half
The median age of first marriage in the US, today, is higher than it has ever been. Today, we talk about those women who squander their youth and beauty on sluttery and concubinage, and then have an “epiphany phase” around age 28 (coinciding perfectly when they perhaps realize that single women are in the minority),Continue reading “The Younger Half”
How to Get Married Young
In the past, women married young. The prime window was 16-25, with the peak around 18-20. How did this happen? There were a number of elements to it, but among them, women lived at their father’s house until marriage. They kept busy, but they didn’t have to make a living. Getting married was their primeContinue reading “How to Get Married Young”
How To Be Feminine
Here is “Mrs. Midwest,” teaching girls how to be girls. She is really good at it. And, apparently, she is married. Just like this this, girls.
All Or Nothing
While we like to talk about the abject sluttery of many young women today, and also those that aren’t really “that kind of girl” but end up going pretty far down that road during the process of “dating,” I think that there has also been a tendency for many young women, and men, to pullContinue reading “All Or Nothing”
Cane Caldo on the “Purity Movement”
The now-dormant Cane Caldo recalls the “Purity Movement” among many Christians. It seems to have been very effective at keeping highly eligible young men and women from marrying each other. In general, women are the ones delaying marriage, but they’re getting an awful lot of help from their fathers. From the secular view, this primarilyContinue reading “Cane Caldo on the “Purity Movement””
Divorce in the Nineteenth Century
When we think about divorce, we usually have the idea of Before and After no-fault divorce, which began around 1969. This led to a huge rise in divorce. This is the “crude divorce rate,” which is a simple ratio between the number of marriages and divorces in a given year. It is about 50%. But,Continue reading “Divorce in the Nineteenth Century”
The First Sexual Revolution
The “sexual revolution” beginning in the 1960s was actually considered, at the time, the “Second Sexual Revolution.” This is to distinguish from the “First Sexual Revolution,” which began in the 1890s and encompassed the 1920s. This was the adoption of “dating,” (basically, premarital sex) instead of Courtship. It also had a corresponding contraceptive technology, whichContinue reading “The First Sexual Revolution”
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