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They don't want to have sex until they get married, so what? Unless they've called those who do have sex before marriage diseased whores, I don't get what the big deal is. If slut shaming is bad, why isn't virgin shaming?
21 is young to get married but it isn't that young. I was a college graduate at 21 living on my own in a city where I didn't know anyone. 21 is a grown up. A year also really isn't that crazy fast to get engaged.
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All of that said, I do with them luck.
stats about virginity pledges - [en.wikipedia.org]
stats on divorce rates - [www.divorcerate.org]
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I'm not so sure they are in the highest divorce group, even if they got married this second (your link doesn't give a source). I'm pretty sure the odds of divorce in a first marriage are highest for teens and slowly decline until age 25, which is what these sources say:
[www.psychpage.com]
[www.huffingtonpost.com]
But I still don't think it really matters. No age group has a 100% divorce rate.
@heykoukla: @clotheswhorse: Maybe its because I don't follow the Jonas Brothers so I've missed them making a big deal of it, but I assume people know because they ask. I don't have a problem with people mentioning their plan to wait until marriage anymore than I have a problem with someone discussing how they lost their virginity on Howard Stern. I personally wouldn't do it, but I don't care if other people do.
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What bothers me is the idea there is something wrong with them for not having sex.
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@Rosaxé: I imagine the cute popular Jonas Brothers waiting is probably helpful to some younger teens who might feel pressured. The ones who don't want to wait have lots of media role models.
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I understand that this was a horribly tragic thing, but when I watch the news in the morning I should be able to find at least one news station that isn't broadcasting speculative stories about how he died (i.e. could he have overdosed on this drug? how about this one? I feel like we have a better shot at finding the answer if we look at this one...).
If we need to know how he died that badly, why not wait until a coroner's report has been released and report on that. In the meantime, I would request that stations like CNN focus on things other than MJ.
/cranky rant
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For instance, this morning Sanjay Gupta was trying to figure out what sleep aid MJ was addicted to. He postulated that it could be over the counter, or it could be prescription, it could even be something that anesthesiologists use. All of this was happening ON AIR. I lost a little respect for Dr. Gupta, and even more for CNN (who began the downworld spiral in my esteem during the Iranian election aftermath).
I know they are driven by numbers, and they have budgets to meet as well, but I just wish they wouldn't stoop to what ifs. I was always under the impressio that was for the beginning stages of an investigative journalism piece, not for broadcast.
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This kinda makes me laugh because, I ran into Mischa several years ago in a Grand Central Station bathroom. She and a friend were applying makeup. This was back before the OC when she was merely known as the girl who threw up in The Sixth Sense.
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Yeah, I'm home today and in the crappiest pair of flip-flops I own. Woot!
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This is a typo and should be body, right? At first I thought his son had the injection marks and I was completely freaked out.
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From the handful of people I know, evangelicals do tend to get engaged faster not so much because of the sex thing but because they talk about marriage on the first date. A friend of mine actually discussed where her hypothetical children would go to school and how much money they both invested for retirement before her first date with her now husband. I know non-fundies who dated years without knowing that kind of stuff. Its a lot more similar to what our grandparents did and its only recently that people started waiting years to get married.
I never understand why so many people care about the Jonas sex life. Its like reverse slut-shaming.
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On the other hand, 21 is not 18, and I got married two days after I turned 22-- and we were already living together, so it wasn't to have sex. 21 is young, but it's not THAT young.
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Yes. Because the (SOMETIMES) very legitimate counter to "What's the rush?" after a while is "Why wait?" Yes I was young when I got engaged, but I was mature and we both knew what we wanted, had discussed the future, and didn't really see that vision changing. I mean, no one knows the future but still...
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This is the most amazing sentence in the history of everything. Mostly because Beth Ditto + Bowie = WINWINWINWINWINWINWINWINWINWIN