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Effect On Courting Habits (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 15. A Council of Youth conference at, Carlisle was told by its Stoke-on-Trent organiser, Mr John Degg, that he had found national service had caused a revolution in courting habits. Girls of 16 or 17 now gave the “cold shoulder” to boy friends of their own age and preferred men in their early twenties. . The reason for this was that girls did not want their courting to be interrupted by the two-year call-up. As a result, girls were mainly attracted to young men who had finished national service.
Mr Degg said the change in courting habits was worrying youth club leaders. Membership among girls was falling off because they were no longer interested in meeting young boys.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27277, 18 February 1954, Page 12
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