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Why Wait Till Marriage?
Why Wait Till Marriage [Paperback]
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First published January 1, 1966
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Evelyn Ruth Millis Duvall
31 books7 followersEvelyn Ruth Millis Duvall (1906-1998) was a pioneer in the field of family development. In 1950, Duvall published one of the first books on dating for young adults, Facts of Life and Love for Teenagers. She was executive director of the National Council on Family Relations from 1945 to 1951 and lectured at various national and international universities between 1954 and 1969. In 1986, she was awarded the first endowed chair in Family Development at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee Campus.
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August 14, 2009
"The reasons for pre-marital chastity, frank and specific for today's youth."
I think it's pretty obvious that I'm only putting this on my list in order to be cheeky. That was also my motivation for keeping it prominent on my bookshelf for the past decade, and change (although I had the satisfying task of defending its presence on the shelf much more frequently when I was in college, subject to unexpected visits to my room, and to the critiques of my book collection that this entailed). I originally picked it up at a booksale where for $1 you could fill a paper bag with whatever books you liked.
This serves also to show how very generous I am with the stars, and that I will totally give three stars to most things simply because they exist.
In point of fact, the best arguments ever advanced in favor of pre-marital abstinence are a series of songs by the Kinks, in which the heroine moves from the virtuous country to the wicked city, and succumbs to the many evils of the latter: "Pretty Polly," "Susannah's Still Alive," "Starstruck," and a few others.
I think it's pretty obvious that I'm only putting this on my list in order to be cheeky. That was also my motivation for keeping it prominent on my bookshelf for the past decade, and change (although I had the satisfying task of defending its presence on the shelf much more frequently when I was in college, subject to unexpected visits to my room, and to the critiques of my book collection that this entailed). I originally picked it up at a booksale where for $1 you could fill a paper bag with whatever books you liked.
This serves also to show how very generous I am with the stars, and that I will totally give three stars to most things simply because they exist.
In point of fact, the best arguments ever advanced in favor of pre-marital abstinence are a series of songs by the Kinks, in which the heroine moves from the virtuous country to the wicked city, and succumbs to the many evils of the latter: "Pretty Polly," "Susannah's Still Alive," "Starstruck," and a few others.
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