3. Latter-day Saints consider it of utmost importance to marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority; to keep the covenant made in connection with this holy and perfect order of matrimony.
4. Theology says that men and women existed as spirit offspring of heavenly parents in a premortal life.
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6. This is dependent to a large extent on entering into "celestial marriage" for "time and all eternity".
7. Eventually all exalted beings shall have entered into this highest patriarchal order of the priesthood.
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9. LDS marriages are distinct and different in several aspects from marriages in other denominations.
10. Marriages of faithful Latter-day Saints differ from those of less observant Church members.
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12. The power of procreation is vital to the entire Plan of Salvation.
13. It is held sacred, to be used only as the Lord has directed.
14. As such LDS dating is viewed as the very key to happiness.
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16. Mormons are significantly less approving of teenagers having sex or of premarital cohabitation than non-Mormons.
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18. The attitudes and behavior of inactive Mormons are more similar to those of other faiths than to active Latter-day Saints.
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20. Canadian Catholics are three times as likely, Protestants twice as likely, and those without a religious affiliation four times as likely as Latter-day Saints not to have married by age thirty.
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22. Active Mormons are less likely to marry non-Mormons than are less active Mormons.
23. Non-Mormon spouses (especially non-Mormon husbands) are more likely to convert to the Church than Mormons are to convert to a non-Mormon spouse's faith.
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25. 14 percent of the Mormon men and 19 percent of the women had divorced.
26. Latter-day Saints married in a temple ceremony are considerably less likely to divorce than those married outside the temple.
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28. Mormon males and females tend to be more conservative and traditional in their gender role attitudes and behavior than members of other faiths.
29. LDS males spend about the same amount of time performing household tasks as non-Mormon males.
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31. LDS females spend more time performing traditional male tasks than do female non-Mormons.
32. These differences in both attitudes and behavior are not viewed negatively by either LDS men or women.
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