DRAFT ONLY ChastityAnd How Society Works Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D. St Georgetown University Nov. 2010
DRAFT ONLY The Five Basic Institutions Five Basic Tasks Church Family School Government Market InstrumentalRelational
DRAFT ONLY Fundamental Capacities Reflection Sexuality Intelligence Force / Benevolence Work
DRAFT ONLY Fundamental Tasks Of the Individual Church Family School Gov Market
DRAFT ONLY Fundamental Tasks Of the Couple Church Family School Gov Market Church Family School Gov Market
DRAFT ONLY Fundamental Tasks Of the Family Church Family School Gov Market Church Family School Gov Market Church Family School Gov Market
DRAFT ONLY Fundamental Tasks Of Society Church Family School GovMarket Church Family School Gov Market Church Family School GovMarket Church Family School Gov Market Couple Family
DRAFT ONLY Fundamental Needs Of Society Goodness & Meaning To Mate & Produce the Next Generation To Know Safety & Justice Material Goods
DRAFT ONLY Belonging: Male + Female Family Child / Adult FatherMother Society At Large
DRAFT ONLY Society’s Foundational Relationship
DRAFT ONLY The Non-Thriving Marriage / Child Relationship
DRAFT ONLY Annual Rejection Ratio: For Every 100 Children Born Sources: CDC/ NCHS report series Divorce OWB
DRAFT ONLY International Rejection Ratio Taiwan China Macedonia Croatia Japan New Zealand Serbia and Montenegro Switzerland Slovakia Portugal Netherlands Georgia Lithuania Slovenia Czech Republic Canada United States Finland France New Calcedonia Denmark Sweden El Salvador Uruguay Jamaica U S A
DRAFT ONLY Source: C. Harper and S. McLanahan, “Father Absence and Youth Incarceration,” ASA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Family Structure: Comparative Rates Of Youth Incarceration Raised in Intact Married Parent Family Raised in Mother-Only FamilyRaised in a Mother and Stepfather Family Raised in a Stepmother Family Comparative Rates of Incarceration
DRAFT ONLY In Britain, a Child Whose Biological Mother Cohabits was 33 Times More Likely to Suffer Serious Abuse than a Child with Married Parents 5 Biological Parents Married Mother Married to Stepfather Biological Mother Alone Biological Parents Cohabiting Source: Robert Whelan, Broken Homes and Broken Children, Family Structure Biological Father Alone Biological Mother Cohabiting Comparative Risk Ratios for Serious Abuse,
DRAFT ONLY U.S: Partner / Spouse Violence Against Mothers Over 20 With Children under 12 Source DOJ Nat Crime Victimization Survey MarriedWidowedMarried+Div+Sep Combined Never Married Rate Per 1,000
DRAFT ONLY Yearly Income, 2000, Families With Children $54,000 $50,000 $30,000 $23,000 $20,000 $9,100 $9,400 $0 $10,000 $20,000 $30,000 $40,000 $50,000 $60,000 First MarriageSecond(+) Marriage CohabitationDivorcedSeparatedWidowedNever Married. Note: Figures do not include transferred income
DRAFT ONLY Children in Poverty, FIRST MARRIAGESECOND(+) MARRIAGEDIVORCEDCOHABITATIONSEPARATEDNEVER MARRIED Percent In Poverty
DRAFT ONLY Median Net Worth of Families With Children Under 18, 2000 Source: Survey of Consumer Finance, 2001 $120,250 $105,360 $27,800 $20,540 $16,540 $14,850 $350 $0 $20,000 $40,000 $60,000 $80,000 $100,000 $120,000 $140,000 First MarriageSecond(+) Marriage DivorcedWidowedCohabitationSeparatedNever Married
DRAFT ONLY 3.93 Million Children 3.17 Million Children 0.75 Million Children Unmarried ParentsSame Parents Married Source R Rector: Analysis of CPS 2001 Children in Poverty In Poverty Out of Poverty
DRAFT ONLY Average GPA Enligsh/Math Combined INTACTSTEPCOHABIT (BOTH NATURAL) COHABIT (ONE NATURAL) DIVORCEDNEVER MARRIED GPA English/Math by Family Structure Source: Adolescent Health Survey, Wave I. Adolescents grade 7-12.
DRAFT ONLY Girls: Number of Sex Partners / Church Attendance Source: Adolescent Health Survey, Wave I. Adolescents grade 7-12.
DRAFT ONLY The More Sexual Partners the More Likely to Abort Source NSFG NUMBER OF NON MARITAL SEXUAL PARTNERS IN LIFETIME Percent who have abortions later
DRAFT ONLY Non-Marital Sexual Partners and Out-of-Wedlock Births Source: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, National Survey of Family Growth, % 16.29% 32.89% 40.02% 44.02% 42.66% 49.45% 49.99% 47.55% 55.21% 49.89% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% Virgin at Time of First Marriage Had Pre- Marital Sex with First Husband Number of Lifetime Voluntary Non-Marital Sexual Partners Percent of Sexually Active Women Aged with Children
DRAFT ONLY Number of Non-Marital Sexual Partners Versus Percent in a Stable Marriage Source NSFG 1995
DRAFT ONLY Virginity By Family Structure Source Add Health, 1996
DRAFT ONLY Female Homosexuality
DRAFT ONLY Female Homosexuality
DRAFT ONLY Female Homosexuality: Father Absence
DRAFT ONLY Female Homosexuality
DRAFT ONLY GPA
DRAFT ONLY Number of Sex Partners for Girls <MONTHLY/NEVER WEEKLY/MONTHLY+ INTACT/COHABIT(NATURAL) ANY REJECTION
DRAFT ONLY 5 Institutions, 5Tasks: Virtues Needed Family:Chastity, Kindness Religion:Piety, Reflection School: Pursuit of Understanding, Hard Work Government:Justice, Mercy Marketplace:Honesty, Hard Work
DRAFT ONLY Within all the 5 Institutions: The single most important virtue?
DRAFT ONLY Within all the 5 Institutions: The single most important virtue?
DRAFT ONLY Society’s Foundational Relationship
DRAFT ONLY Acts 24, 24 And after some days, Felix, coming with Drusilla his wife, who was a Jew, sent for Paul, and heard of him the faith, that is in Christ Jesus. 25 And as he treated of justice, and chastity, and of the judgment to come, Felix being terrified, answered: For this time, go thy way: but when I have a convenient time, I will send for thee.
DRAFT ONLY Parallel words in Translations of Paul’s discourse Temperance (King James Bible; English Revised Version Self control (American Standard Bible; International Standard Version; Weymouth New Testament; World English Bible ) Chastity (Douay-Rheims); All meaning the same thing.
DRAFT ONLY Number of Non-Marital Sexual Partners Versus Percent in a Stable Marriage Source NSFG 1995
DRAFT ONLY Society’s Foundational Relationship
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