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Mormon Men Delaying the Walk Down the Aisle
Beliefnet ^ | April 22, 2011 | Peggy Fletcher Stack

Posted on 05/15/2011 7:27:30 PM PDT by TheDingoAteMyBaby

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1 posted on 05/15/2011 7:27:40 PM PDT by TheDingoAteMyBaby
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To: TheDingoAteMyBaby

This isn’t surprising. The humanistic culture of the government schools is so powerful that it overwhelms even the relatively strong Mormon culture. Imagine what it is doing to the average “happy-clappy” Evangelical teen and young adult.


2 posted on 05/15/2011 7:34:00 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: TheDingoAteMyBaby

As the percentage of women that are liberal is exceedingly high... why would any conservative male willingly spend time in the same room with them... let alone marry one

and since men are more often conservative then women... there is a problem

If you’re looking for a college educated woman... the supply is very limited


3 posted on 05/15/2011 7:37:18 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: achilles2000

people get married when they get married. if they don’t, they don’t.

no big deal.


4 posted on 05/15/2011 7:39:59 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain & proud of it: Truly Supporting the Troops means praying for their Victory!)
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To: sten
As the percentage of women that are liberal is exceedingly high...

This is true for American and other Western women only.

5 posted on 05/15/2011 7:43:39 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: sten

From what I can tell, most Mormon women are quite conservative.


6 posted on 05/15/2011 7:45:06 PM PDT by TheDingoAteMyBaby
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To: TheDingoAteMyBaby

I don’t know much about Mormons except that I know a few.

Italians, French, Spaniards, Americans....a whole raft of men and women have practically lived with their parents for years longer than in a previous generation.

You think of someone getting on his car or his horse and striking out on his own at a young age, and such a thought, in comparison with what life has become, seems like a fairy tale.


7 posted on 05/15/2011 7:45:59 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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Another problem is that a modern divorce can have you wrung dry and destroyed in every sense of the word. One of my acquaintances even lost her own home (don't know why, I never asked, fearing that I will get the whole story.) She ended up nearly in the street, was living with friends, completely broke. Today a marriage is a gamble with your life; and the rate of divorces is high. And why wouldn't that be so if a divorce offers a financial gain to one side and an opportunity to do the same thing again?
8 posted on 05/15/2011 7:48:13 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: xzins

It is a problem when an opposing culture, you don’t care much for replaces your culture.


9 posted on 05/15/2011 7:58:06 PM PDT by Jonty30
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To: xzins

Very urbane. Indeed, very European. Democide.


10 posted on 05/15/2011 7:59:05 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: TheDingoAteMyBaby

What surprises me is that Mormons believe in no sex before marriage. Usually that is an effective incentive to marry young.


11 posted on 05/15/2011 8:00:09 PM PDT by TheDingoAteMyBaby
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To: achilles2000; Jonty30

I’ve never met a mormon family with more than 5 kids, anyway. Most I’ve met have fewer.

It’s as easy to have 5 starting at 30 as it is starting at 24.

I laughed out loud when I read the part castigating young men holding out for a 9.9 when they currently have a 9.7.

If they see a problem, then they see a problem, and they don’t want to buy.

But the message is: “Breed. Breed now. Partner be damned; just breed.”

That is hysterical!


12 posted on 05/15/2011 8:05:29 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain & proud of it: Truly Supporting the Troops means praying for their Victory!)
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To: sten
If you’re looking for a college educated woman... the supply is very limited

Compared to when? Aren't there more than there ever has been, and aren't the colleges mostly female.

"Among adults 25 and older, 10.6 million in the U.S. who earned a master's degree or higher were women, compared to 10.5 million men."

"In terms of finishing college, women surpass men in earning bachelor's degrees, by 1.5 million."

13 posted on 05/15/2011 8:08:09 PM PDT by ansel12 ( JIM DEMINT "I believe [Palins] done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan")
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To: xzins

I was wondering what constitutes the difference between a 9.7 and a 9.9 Mormon girl...


14 posted on 05/15/2011 8:14:47 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: xzins

It’s easy enough for a guy to have 5 kids when he’s 27, but it ain’t so easy for the dame. If she waits until she’s 27 before having any, she’ll be lucky to pop out 3.


15 posted on 05/15/2011 8:16:21 PM PDT by Jonty30
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To: TheDingoAteMyBaby

Funny — I thought women walked down the aisle. I thought men were waiting at the altar.


16 posted on 05/15/2011 8:17:26 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: achilles2000

I married at 30.

Mostly because up until I met her, I just couldn’t find a woman worth marrying that felt the same about me - no more reason than that. There was no complicated explanation.

Thankfully it worked out the way it did - I have an amazing wife!

I shudder to think the hell I’d be living had I married any of the girls I dated from age 19 through 27...


17 posted on 05/15/2011 8:18:38 PM PDT by RockinRight (Cain in 2012)
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To: sten

I faced this too - and it got worse the older I got.

As a college educated person, I wanted a woman of similar background...I can thank FR for finally meeting my wife, but prior to that they were either insanely liberal, or conservative, but they otherwise drove me nuts.


18 posted on 05/15/2011 8:21:22 PM PDT by RockinRight (Cain in 2012)
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To: SIDENET

And the bashing of American women has commenced...


19 posted on 05/15/2011 8:21:57 PM PDT by RockinRight (Cain in 2012)
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To: ansel12

I think he meant CONSERVATIVE college educated women.


20 posted on 05/15/2011 8:23:34 PM PDT by RockinRight (Cain in 2012)
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