But our encouragement of courtship clearly has drawn the most attention. The home-school movement has enthusiastically embraced the idea that dating is morally bankrupt. Dating encourages a person to dump his or her honey when someone cuter, richer or funnier comes along. Rampant divorce rates and serial infidelities are the end result of this mindset. Courtship encourages young people to look at all romance as being confined to marriage.
Romance is either in contemplation of, or inside, marriage.
Romance merely for a hot Saturday night is not the ideal. We are going to teach this model. We are going to create an honor code. But our principal enforceable rule will simply be to ensure that students tell their parents what they are doing in this arena of life. We will not install dating police.