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Going steady

Going steady is when two romantic partners agree to an exclusive relationship. Growing in prevalence in the United States after World War II, this pattern became mainstream in high schools and colleges in the 1950s. Its popularity continued through the 1980s, with teenagers beginning to go steady at progressively earlier ages. However, the label "going…

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related to Adult opinions · 21
Going steady → According, Advice, Although, Another, Being, Both, Boys' Life, Breines, Catholic, Doris Blake, Dorothy Dix, It's, Life, Littauer, Profiles, Rates, Reliable, Some, Studies, The
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Going steady → Before World War II, Dating, Dating Complex, During, Going, High, In, Penn State College, Rating, Sociologist Wini Breines, Sociologists, Some, Steady, There, Waller's, Willard Waller, WWII
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Going steady → Couples, Going, Sociologists, The
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Going steady → Contemporary, Sexual, The, While
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Going steady → For, Some
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Going steady → proximate occasion of sin
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Going steady → Surveys

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