No, our world is not ideal, and I don't claim it to be, but individuals can and do rise to the standards set for them by others (their family, school, community) as well as those they set for themselves (with the help of aforementioned groups). I refuse to believe that we should abandon hope for an ideal, simply because the reality is bleak. If everyone thought that way, we wouldn't be chatting in a forum named after an organization of women who believed in higher ideals than what many in society thought they should aspire to/live out.
I don't think it's self-righteous to hold ourselves and our children to certain ideals, and if delaying sex/children until marriage isn't the ideal of some, then I say fine-just make sure you can handle/finance the ramifications of those acts. That usually is the domain of rational, self-supporting adults.
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