• The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.

    Boyd K. Packer: The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act.  Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary.  Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.