Iuliia Nurmukhamedov

FHS 2400
10/05/2014
Nonmarital Sex: Should I or shouldnt I? You are the parent of a 15 year-old daughter. She is
interested in your views on nonmarital sex. What would you tell her? Would your comments be
any different if the child were a boy? What are your personal beliefs about nonmarital sex?
Compare and contrast your personal views with the information that you would give your 15
year-old child. Do I Marry the Baby's Father?: An 18 year-old female that you have known for
a long time tells you that she is pregnant and wants to know if she should marry the baby's
father. What is your advice? Would your advice be different if the female were 25 years old?
What would be your advice if an 18 year old male asked you if he should marry the 18 year girl
that he got pregnant? What if he were 25?
Everyone need to have education about sex relationships. As earlier we start educate our
children, as better. But not everything depends on education and Family. If I would have a 15
years old daughter asking me about nonmarital sex, I would say it is nothing bad or wrong with
it. She just need to think before she does something, she needs to be responsible. 15 years is
too young age to start sexual relationships, she should wait at least 3-4 years. Some religions
are against non marital sex, but I am not that religious, so I cant force my children to follow it if I
am not following it. As long as people take responsibility for their sexual relationships, as long
as they dont change partners every other day it is ok.
I think my comments would be about the same if it would be 15 years old son. Even if book
says: Traditional heterosexual sexual scripts are clearly gendered, prescribing different roles
and responsibilities for females and males. (Strong, p. 183). At this point I would be more
concerned about their young age, but not the fact of nonmarital sex. I dont think nonmarital sex
is something bad. But people should always think about what can happen in case of pregnancy.
If person is scared to get pregnant why would this person even have sex. Most of the time 18
year- olds dont think of it.They just enjoy their lives not thinking about the future. But if the
female I know would get pregnant, I would ask her if she loves, trusts the babys father. If the
babys father wants to take responsibility to be father. If these young parents dont have
anything in common, it is worthless to get married. Children sometimes suffer more from bad
relationships between parents rather than from being raised in single parent families. I would
have same advice no matter if person is 18 or 25. Before having children, no matter how old are
people, people should trust each other, people should want to have a family. And if its
unplanned pregnancy, people should think first what would be the best for their children.
Strong, Bryan, Christine DeVault, and Theodore F. Cohen. The Marriage and Family
Experience Intimate Relationships in a Changing Society. 12th ed. Wadsworth, 2013.