text: I was just using it to point out how bad Catholic youth programs are.  Very few people formally date in high school or college now.  Yet Catholic social mixers seem to be geared to pushing kids into serious relationship and early marriages like the 1950s.  
  
  Here is another example.  When I was in high school, I was jealous of the Protestant kids got to go on mission trips.  We did not.  The Catholic youth group was geared toward middle schoolers and the young adult group was for people in their 30s who were married.  There was very little for people in their 20s who are not married.