The Mormon Culture Analysis

The culture created through the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is an important factor in relationships throughout many member’s lives. From the beginning of dating as a teenager, to dating, to find an eternal spouse, to the time when children are being discussed and the views on the use of birth control. The LDS culture has a great influence, on these milestones. One can conclude that the LDS Faith has a great impact upon how the members’ behave versus how other people of different faiths behave specifically in early stages of courtship, to finding a spouse, to even how couples go about preparing for children. Not only is their influence through religious culture, but also through societal culture pertaining to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Coming from a westernized country, many tend to not be as reserved in their thinking on appropriate dating and when individuals should start to seek out relationships of romantic nature. Although the LDS cultures view incorporates westernized ideology, it has many views closely aligned to that of the more traditional non-westernized world. The LDS culture has a role
The belief of no birth control and the use of it as bad was a view that aligned with the non-westernized world. The members of the LDS Church believe that there is a commandment in which states ‘members are required to multiply and replenish the earth.’ Roles of gender were assigned in pre-earth life and that includes for females bear fruit from their wombs. “I was not able to have children of my own, I felt that I was not loved because of this trial…. How could the lord bless all the married women in my life with children and the ability to give birth but not me...? It was unfair in my eyes because I couldn’t even fulfill the Lords commandment.” (Strobel, 1945). Previously women had a role to bear children, nurture, and be a