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"Let me just say a word to high schoolers here. High school is frequently the stage of life when people forfeit their sexual purity. If students realize two important facts about teenage relationships, they not might be so casual about sex. Only 1 out of 1,000 high school relationships will end up in marriage. The average person will fall in love 7 times before they get married. If you were to have sex with each person that you said you were in love with, on average, your spouse would be the 7th person with whom you would share life's most intimate experience.
"Something very little talked about is the tremendous negative impact cohabitation has on children. By the age of 10, nearly 63% of children of cohabitation will experience the breakup of their household compared to about 14% of children whose parents are married.
"What does all this mean? Simply that God knew what He was doing when He gave the 7th commandment about adultery. It also means the best thing the church can do for a couple that is dating and the first message we need to give dating couples is - if you want a good marriage, avoid pre-marital sexual relations. The National Survey of Family Growth found that women who were not virgins when they got married, have a 71% higher divorce rate than those who were. Saying "no" to premarital sex and adultery means saying "yes" to a stronger marriage.
"Dealing with the matter of adultery itself or extra marital sex, let me just say a word to all you men and women out there. The grass on the other side of the fence may start off green, but it usually ends up brown. 80% of all men who have had an affair end up staying with or returning to their wives and of those who do divorce their wives, only 10% married the woman with whom they had the affair."
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