Increase in pre-marital sex high in Mizoram

A study by the largest Church in Mizoram reveals that the percentage of incidence of premarital sex is high amongst Mizo youths with 43.27 per cent admitting that they had sex before marriage.
While 52.88 per cent said that they did not have premarital sex, 43.27 per cent admitted to doing so and the rest refused to respond to a questionnaire sent by the Synod Social Front, a social organisation of the Mizoram Presbyterian Church.
The SSF gave questionnaires to 31,202 people across the state of whom 30,001 responded, SSF coordinator Dr Robert S Halliday says.
"It seems that the majority of those who had premarital sex think that what they did was morally wrong with 87.43 per cent regarding sex before marriage as a sin," sources in the SSF say.
Only 9.8 per cent thought there was no problem in premarital sex if it was consentual. The Presbyterian Church conducted the study to create awareness amongst members that the practice of premarital sex was against the principles of Christianity and should be eradicated.
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