NOTES

INTRODUCTION

1. Dr. David Popenoe and Dr. Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, “Sex without Strings, Relationship without Rings” from The State of Our Unions, 2001, paper published by The National Marriage Project, http://marriage.rutgers.edu/publications/pubsexwostrings.htm.

CHAPTER 1

1. Mortimer Adler, The Synopticon: An Index to the GreatIdeas, vol. 1 (Chicago: Britannica, 1952), 543.

2. Peter Kreeft, For Heaven’s Sake (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1986), 18.

CHAPTER 2

1.William Doherty, Take Back Your Marriage (New York: The Guilford Press, 2001), 11.

2. G. K. Chesterton, “A Defence of Rash Vows” in TheDefendant (New York: Dodd,Mead & Company, 1904), 23.

3. Quoted by William Doherty in Take Back Your Marriage, 7.

CHAPTER 3

1. Daniel Block, Judges, Ruth, vol. 6, The New AmericanCommentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1999), 605–606.

2. Words of stanzas one and two by Samuel Zwemer. Stanza three added by Dr. Paul Armerding, who is present director of American Mission Hospital. Found at http://www.amh.org.bh/pages/cenceleb.htm csong.

CHAPTER 4

1. Erik Baard, “The No Mourning After Pill,” New StraitsTimes (19 August 2003), P1.

2. Quoted in Family News from Dr. James Dobson, August 1992, 5.

3. Steve Aschburner, “Is Kobe’s ‘Moral Bank Account’ Overdrawn?” AOL Exclusive, 23 July 2003, at http://www.aol.com.

4. Clovis G. Chappell, Home Folks (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1974), 94.

5. Ibid., 26.

CHAPTER 6

1. “The New Meaning of Marriage,” condensed from Réalitiés by Rosemary Haughton for Reader’s Digest (January 1971), 81.

CHAPTER 7

1. Edmund Gosse, Father and Son (Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1983), 250–51.

2. “The Voice That Breathed O’er Eden.”Words by John Keble (1792–1866).