[115] G. K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News, January 9, 1909.
[116] United States Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics.
[117] Karen Cross , “I Left the Love of my Life Because I Thought I Could Do Better. Now I’m Childless and Alone at 42,” The Daily Mail, January 16, 2013.
[118] Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson (Dover Publications, 1999, originally published in 1894), page 30.
[119] Robert E. Rector et al., The Harmful Effects of Early Sexual Activity and Multiple Sexual Partners Among Women: A Book of Charts (Washington DC: The Heritage Foundation, June 23, 2003).
[120] “Dear Bel,” The Daily Mail, November 2, 2012.
[121] Ecclesiastes 7:26
[122] Proverb 5:8
[123] 1 Corinthians 6:18
[124] John 8:11b, Darby translation
[125] Psalm 103:12
[126] Isaiah 43:25
[127] 1 Timothy 1:15
[128] Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill, The Art of Electronics (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994), page 175.
[129] Roger Dobson, “Working women are more likely to seek divorce,” The Independent, July 10, 2005.
[130] Marianne Bertrand et al., “Gender identity and relative income within households,” February, 2013.
[131] Claudia Connell, “The lonely legacy of my Sex and the City lifestyle,” The Daily Mail, November 4, 2012.
[132] Claudia Goldin et al, “The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 20, Number 4, Fall 2006, Pages 133 – 156.
[133] Ben Franklin is credited with a similar statement.
[134] Esther K. Diekhof et al., “A functional neuroimaging study assessing gender differences in the neural mechanisms underlying the ability to resist impulsive desires,” Brain Research, September 14, 2012.
[135] Steve Connor, “The hardwired difference between male and female brains could explain why men are ‘better at map reading’,” The Independent, December 3, 2013.
[136] Esther K. Diekhof and Oliver Gruber, “When Desire Collides with Reason: Functional Interactions between Anteroventral Prefrontal Cortex and Nucleus Accumbens Underlie the Human Ability to Resist Impulsive Desires,” The Journal of Neuroscience, January 27, 2010.
[137] Esther K. Diekhof et al., “A Functional Neuroimaging Study Assessing Gender Differences in the Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Ability to Resist Impulsive Desires,” Brain Research Journal, Volume 1473, September 14, 2010, pages 63-77.
[138] Mark Gungor, Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage (New York: Atria Paperback, 2008), page 44.
[139] John C. Maxwell, Cross-examining Credibility (The John Maxwell Company, 2011), www.johnmaxwell.com
[140] Kristina M. Durante et al., “Ovulation Leads Women to Perceive Sexy Cads as Good Dads,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, May 14, 2012.
[141] “When she says, ‘It’s not you, it’s me,’ it really might be you, UCLA study suggests,” UCLA Newsroom, October 24, 2012.
[142] Andy Coghlan, “It’s true: all the taken men are best,” New Scientist, August 17, 2009.
[143] Jessica Parker and Melissa Burkley, “Who’s chasing whom? The impact of gender and relationship status on mate poaching,” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 45, Number 4, July 2009.
[144] C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950), page 168.
[145] Ibid, page 77.
[146] 2 Timothy 1:7
[147] C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce, (Great Britain: G. Bles, 1946), page 72.
[148] 1 Timothy 2:14
[149] Genesis 3:6
[150] Sabino Kornrich et al., “Egalitarianism, Housework, and Sexual Frequency in Marriage,” American Sociological Review, 2012 78(1) pages 26-50.
[151] 1 Corinthians 7:5
[152] Sabino Kornrich et al., “Egalitarianism, Housework, and Sexual Frequency in Marriage,” American Sociological Review, 2012 78(1) pages 26-50.
[153] I fully understand the difference between causation and correlation. The observations noted are valuable even with this in mind.
[154] Archer E Schook et al., “45-Year Trends in Women’s Use of Time and Household Management Energy Expenditure,” PLoS One 8(2), 2013.
[155] 1 Thessalonians 2:11
[156] In like manner, men, engage in regular physical contact with your sons. They need to feel your strength and need to have physical contact just as much as your daughters and, outside of athletic pursuits, moral touch is often hard to come by for teenaged boys. Hug him firmly, bump chests, wrestle with him, and by all means rub his head. No one but a dad gets away with rubbing a teenaged son’s head.
[157] Mark 10:8
[158] 2 Corinthians 6:14
[159] 1 Corinthians 7:39
[160] Genesis 18:20
[161] Eddie Wrenn, “So that’s how they put up with men! Study finds sexually aroused women are less easily disgusted,” Mail Online, September 13, 2012.
[162] Ecclesiastes 4:9
[163] Proverb 11:22
[164] John 3:30 (NASB)
[165] 1 Timothy 2:15
[166] Genesis 9:1
[167] Credit to blogger and author Athol Kay for the Star Trek analogy upon which I built, more widely recognizable and more easily understood than the obscure historical example I’d used previously. As an atheist with a good sense of humor, I’m sure he’d be amused that I adapted it to illustrate Christian principles in my letter.
[168] Galations 3:26
[169] 1 Corinthians 14:33
[170] Matthew 22:30
[171] 1 Corinthians 6:3
[172] Matthew 19:30
[173] Revelation 7:17
[174] Psalm 147:3
[175] Matthew 7:4
[176] 1 Peter 3:15
[177] “State of the Media: Trends of TV Viewing – 2011 TV Upfronts,” The Nielson Company, 2011, 11/3079, (www.nielson.com).
[178] Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (New York: Simon & Shuster, 1989), page 151.
[179] Linda J. Waite et al., Does Divorce Make People Happy? (New York: Institute for American Values, 2002), page 5.
[180] I highly recommend Athol Kay’s book, The Married Man Sex Life Primer. Though Athol does not approach this subject from a Christian perspective, I trust that a mature man can separate the wheat from the chaff in what is, on balance, a very helpful book on raising one’s SMV.
[181] Titus 2:3
[182] Psalm 11:3
[183] Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Sophisms (New York: Foundation for Economic Education, 2002), originally written in 1848, Second Series, chapter 1, page 130.
[184] Matthew 6:33
[185] Matthew 16:18 (KJV)
[186] Matthew 25:21
[187] 1 Corinthians 13:1
[188] Joshua 1:7
[189] Matthew 7:16 (ASV)
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