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The following essay was written by Katelyn and Kristine Hunter, as part of the recent Women's Education Program study. I think you'll find it very worthwhile... Jonathan McNair --------------------------------- Getting to the Root of It American Culture and Christian Women By Katelyn Hunter and Kristine Hunter                 Each civilization is subject to its own philosophies.  [...]

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By her own admission, Judy Hollis's behaviour was thoughtlessly promiscuous. 'For a year,' she says, 'I fooled around, sleeping with more than ten men.  'I didn't always use protection  -  caught without any, in the heat of the moment, I threw caution to the wind. Then I discovered I had chlamydia.'  You'd be forgiven for [...]

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Andrew J. Cherlin, nytimes.com, May 29, 2009:Baltimore IN times of economic crisis, Americans turn to their families for support. If the Great Depression is any guide, we may see a drop in our sky-high divorce rate. But this won't necessarily represent an increase in happy marriages, nor is the trend likely to last. In the [...]

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Births to Unwed Mothers Reaches All-Time High The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this week that births to unwed mothers in the U.S. during 2007 reached an all-time high of about 40 percent. More than three-quarters of these women were 20 or older. Data showed that more babies were born in the United [...]

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Morning-After Pill Available to Teens U.S. District Judge Edward R. Korman ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week (via a 52-page document overriding the judgment of the entire FDA) to make the morning-after pill available to 17-year-olds without a doctor's visit or prescription — and without parental consent. Korman also asked the FDA [...]

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The Married Minority. "Married couples are in a minority for the first time since records began" in Britain in 1862 (The Times, February 13, 2009). "Only one of 50 single women now marries each year, and only one in 43 single men." The average age at first marriage for men is now almost 32 and for women [...]

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