[LadySilk]

I have children and I tell them that sex is about love and it is an expression of that love and something that should wait until they are mature enough to be able to handle the emotional turmoil that love brings into your life. To me marriage is an institution whose only real value is once you've decided to have children and a family because children deserve a stable home, financial security, and two parents who produced them out of love and respect and love them. Equating sex with marriage just rushes people into marriage-which should wait until you are absolutely sure this is the person you can live with forever before you have kids.

Experience and hindsight I'm afraid for me.