“Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a
divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as faith,
courage, empathy and refinement in relationships and cultures. A woman’s moral
influence is nowhere more powerfully felt or more beneficially employed than in
the home. There is no better setting for rearing the rising generation than the
traditional family where a father and a mother work in harmony to provide for,
teach and nurture their children. A pernicious philosophy that undermines women’s
moral influence is the devaluation of marriage and motherhood and homemaking as
a career. There has long been a cultural double standard excusing immorality.
It has been justifiably criticized and rejected. In that rejection, one would
have hoped that men would rise to the higher, single standard, but just the
opposite has occurred. Women and girls are now encouraged to be as promiscuous
as the double standard expected men to be.” – Elder D. Todd Christofferson.
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