{"id":3927,"date":"2007-07-01T11:26:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=3927"},"modified":"2007-07-01T11:26:02","modified_gmt":"2007-07-01T15:26:02","slug":"new-pew-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2007\/07\/new-pew-study\/","title":{"rendered":"New Pew Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/pubs\/526\/marriage-parenthood\">here<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What happens as the gap between the beliefs\/behaviors of the larger culture and the Church widens?   What happens to Church culture, policies, programs, General Conference talks, missionary work, etc. when 40% of births are to unmarried women?  Where in less than a generation there is a double-digit decrease in the percentage of people who think that children are important to a successful marriage?  Where most people don&#8217;t think that premarital sex is wrong?<\/p>\n<p>I hope the questions about don&#8217;t sound like hand-wringing about moral decline.  They aren&#8217;t.  They are serious questions about what could\/should\/would\/shouldn&#8217;t change in the Church in the face of those changes:<\/p>\n<p>(How) do you talk about chastity differently if most of your Beehives were born out-of-wedlock?  (How) do you do missionary work differently if most of your contacts are cohabitating?  (How) do you talk about children in General Conference if most of society doesn&#8217;t think that they are important to a successful marriage?  (How) do you talk about SSA in YM\/YW if many of their friends are being raised by gay couples?  (How) do you teach your own children how to be a Saint in a culture where the moral standards of the church are not the norm?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}