Premarital Sex Flashcards
In the 60s, fewer than 1 in 20 UK couples ?, but that’s increased to more than half of all couples today. The introduction of the contraceptive pill in the 60s has been credited with driving this social change, as removing the fear of unwanted pregnancy diminished the need to contain ? within ?
Cohabited.
Sex.
Marriage.
In the 60s, ? commonly meant a short period when a couple lived together before they married or went their separate ways. Today, it can occur as long as an actual marriage, with or without children.
Cohabitation.
In 18th Century ?, marriage was expected to follow after ?, but women were vulnerable to abandonment. In Britain, the rise in the importance of female virginity at marriage was due to the fact that male members of the British ? wanted to know that the children born to their wives were their own.
England.
Betrothal.
Aristocracy.
Christian teachings traditionally view sex before, or outside of, marriage as a ?
Sin.
Premarital sex indicates a lack of moral discipline and poses a threat to the institutions of marriage and family, informed by biblical references to marriage: “that is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh” (? 2:24).
Genesis.
Marriage and sexual union are part of God’s ?
Plan.
For the Catholic Church, premarital sex doesn’t express ?, exclusivity and commitment and it doesn’t tolerate sex before marriage.
Fidelity.
The Church of England stated: “Christians [must] accept that cohabitation is a step along the way towards that fuller and more complete ?”.
Commitment.
Adrian ? argues that Christians who believe all pre-ceremonial sex’s immoral have wrongly assumed that the ceremony’s a requirement of marriage, suggesting that there’s a long tradition that locates the key point of commitment between two people as betrothal, when promises are made, not the marriage ceremony which happens later although a breach in ? was viewed as incredibly serious in the Christian tradition.
Thatcher.
Betrothal.
In Catholic thought, the couple marry each. The question’s whether a ? is made at betrothal.
Commitment.
In ? countries, social attitudes and laws don’t follow the Church’s moral teachings. Civil marriages outnumber religious marriages in the UK.
Western.
Christianity rejects the new social norms and asserts traditional sexual rules and binds members to follow them, or reinterprets sexual acts previously decried as ?, and looks for ways to encourage a more positive engagement with people engaged in premarital sex, beyond excluding them from ?, seeing it as a step in the process towards marriage.
Sinful.
Membership.
