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• a  relating to events before a marriage

• A new study published in the January issue of Pediatrics finds that teenagers who took chastity vows are as likely as their peers to have premarital sex, but less likely to protect .
• Fully 86% of those who answered Liu's survey said they approved of premarital sex.
• Anthropologist Murdock wished more power to "socially controlled premarital experimentation.

• prenuptial
• antenuptial

• postnuptial

News & Articles

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• Sex before marriage: Ethics and Religion Talk
  The panel responds to a reader's question about premarital sex.
  June 18, 2013 - The Grand Rapids Press
• Grace University's moral stance isn't that unusual
  Creighton and other church-affiliated schools also prohibit premarital sex.
  June 15, 2013 - Omaha World-Herald

Quotes

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• Mitt Romney in CBS 42
  You get all these Mormons out there with strict prohibition against premarital sex. They're young and they're attractive, the hormones work very well and people decide it's time to get married,Romney says.
• Francis Quinn in California Catholic Daily
  So many of the issues that Catholics deal with -- divorce, homosexuality, premarital sex -- center around sexuality and affect how they connect with the church,Bishop Quinn told the publication. "We need to move beyond this circular logic...
• Stephen Prothero in USA Today
  Despite the late Pope John Paul II's warnings to explicitly avoid Buddhist and Hindu practices, Prothero says, "American Catholics are so used to not caring what the official church tells them on birth control, divorce, premarital sex and other...