First Blog!

This is all new to me! I'm not exactly sure how I want this to go. I just thought I'd share my thoughts about the reading from Lauer and Lauer, titled "Marriage and Family".  We read about "Changing Patterns Of Intimate Relationships".  I found some of the facts and statistics to be disturbing, and some of it hopeful and helpful.  It reported in 2010 that a survey of high school students concluded that 48 percent has sexual relations at least once in high school as opposed to the 54 percent in 1999.  The other part that is alarming is that 61 percent of women in their early twenties who gave birth were unmarried.  I feel that this is a considerably high statistic. At first thought that maybe the worlds views on marriage were declining, but it went on to say that a national survey was completed about values from ages 14-29. It concluded that having a "lifelong partner" and "getting married" were of "top importance".  I think in the end most people have hopes to have a successful marriage and family.