Word: wrongs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pollsters asked people to make judgments on a series of actions, deciding whether such actions were morally wrong or not a moral issue. On most issues the answers were stern ones...
...morally wrong for a married man to be unfaithful to his wife? Yes, said a solid 76%. Is it morally wrong for a married woman to be unfaithful to her husband? Seventy-nine percent condemned it. (Women are generally more conservative than men on these issues, perhaps be cause, as one woman observed, "they usually have to pay the consequences." They are even as quick to apply the double standard-i.e., like men, women condemned female adultery more than male adultery.) The worst sin of all is when couples exchange partners: 81% of everyone questioned condemned...
...morally wrong for teen-agers to have sex relations? Yes, said 63%. Those under age 25 disagreed, by a vote of 60% to 34%, but they were shouted down, as in real life, by their parents. The condemnation rose to a figure of 72% among those aged 35 to 49, and to 80% among those over...
...morally wrong for couples who are not married to live together? No, said 52%. This is the only category of "liberated" sexual behavior asked about in the poll that was accepted by a majority-however thin-and that is because of large approval among men and the young. For 51% of women, living together is still considered morally wrong, as it is among 52% of those between 35 and 49. And the acceptance of cohabitation does not necessarily lead to the acceptance of illegitimate children. Seventy percent of all those polled disapproved of having children without formal marriage...
...more liberal than Protestants. The Northeast and the West are the most liberal areas, the South the least so. The young as always, are far more easygoing than the old, and the college-educated more than those without a college education. On the question of whether it is morally wrong for a man to spend an evening with a prostitute, for example, the rate of disapproval varies from 55% in the West to 69% in the South, from 54% among men to 69% among women, from 51% of those under 25 to 74% of those over 50, from...