How Can Mormons Afford It?
January 12, 2012
ACCORDING TO The Washington Post, attitudes toward traditional sex roles remain strong among Mormons. In a Pew Forum poll of Mormons,
●Seventy-nine percent said sex between unmarried adults is wrong, compared with 35 percent of the general population.
● Fifty-eight percent of Mormons say the best kind of marriage is one with a husband as provider and a wife to care for the house and children; in the general population, 62 percent say it’s preferable for both partners to have jobs and take care of the home.
I would have assumed this last number for Mormons would be higher. Nevertheless, it is still relatively high, especially since Mormons live in the same economic climate as the rest of the country.
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Kevin Stay writes:
As a devout ‘Mormon’ (member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) I find myself disheartened, but not surprised by those poll results. How can 21 percent of adherents to an organization which states with no ambiguity that pre-marital sex is unacceptable in the eyes of God believe it to be other than wrong? How can a staggering 42 percent feel the wife should also have a job when one of the core, black-and-white principles is that the father is primarily responsible to provide for the material needs of the family and the mother is primarily responsible to nurture and raise the children?
