Many purity reformers, particularly the suffragists, also advocated the notion of voluntary motherhood, the right of wives to abstain from sexual intercourse to avoid unwanted pregnancies and assert some control over family size. ... In fact, statistics show that the number of premarital pregnancies rose from a 10 percent rate of occurrence in the mid-nineteenth century to 23 percent in the years between 1880 and 1910. ... Some also advocated contraception for married couples to enhance sexual activity while avoiding unwanted pregnancy. ... These women often asked her for the secre...

• Word Count: 2720
• Approx Pages: 11
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One of the biggest ones is sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and pregnancy. ... (DeLmater, 304) "The rate of teenage pregnancy in the United States is the highest of any Western nation; teenagers in this country are twice as likely to become pregnant as are Canadian or English teens, four times as likely as Swedish teenagers, and nine times as likely as teen women in the Netherlands."...

• Word Count: 2755
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Catholic Church's thinking seems to go, 'if teens do not have sex before they are married then how can they have issues with pregnancies and STIs.' ... There is a major gap that needs to be filled because today's future is falling in it with unwanted pregnancies and diseases. ... Long-term impacts have included lower STI and/or pregnancy rates," (McKeon). ...

• Word Count: 2516
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Much research has been done to identify the factors that contribute to marital dissolution. Identifying these predictors of divorce can help better understand marital relationships and can help prevent divorce. The causes of divorce discussed in this paper include, equity of housework and its r...

• Word Count: 3231
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Jewish religious and cultural history and biblical authority have made the Bible one of the most important means by which woman's place in society has been defined down through the centuries. Not only is the Bible itself a partial historical document of the Jews, the way it has been received and analyzed has its own intriguing historical chronology. It is nearly impossible to accurately posit a specific date to any books or verses in the Hebrew Bible.1 The Dead Sea Scrolls, most probably written by a minor sect, the Essenes, are the oldest extant pieces of scripture. Prior to their discov...

• Word Count: 2927
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Not disputing the fact that few of the children with single parent succeed but majority of them seems to be wayward for instance are likely to drop out of school, become teen parent due to unwanted pregnancy, become arrested and so on. ...

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Summary of Rebecca Rebecca's narrative takes the form of a flashback. The heroine who remains nameless, lives in Europe with her husband, Maxim de Winter traveling from hotel to hotel, harboring memories of a beautiful home called Manderley, which, we learn, has been destroyed by fire. The story be...

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• Grade Level: High School

How has the issue of gender superiority evolved in China? The existence of women throughout China's history was that of total inferiority. As the Chinese society developed women became subordinate to men. Even when death comes, this lesser position was brought out in the discoveries of ancient ...

• Word Count: 2634
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School