| Summary: | The problem of extramarital pregnancy has always been known in the long history of mankind, either as an individual phenomenon or as a symptom of a community institution, and certainly will forever be known along its further existence. This is true because its underlying cause is mainly rooted in the nature and expression of human sexuality, which is not always responsive to regulation and inhibition by way of religious teachings and norms, community laws and moral codes. Without sacrificing one's adherence to lofty principles governing traditional ways of marital life, there is need to face this problem with more understanding and insight into its causal factors and search for ways and means to negate them, aside from efforts to handle the unavoidable consequences on the individuals concerned, on the very case of the pregnancy itself, on the child born in innocence, on the family threatened with distress and disintegration, and on the community itself when it feels it is an affront to its cultural heritage.
Key Words: extramarital pregnancy � human sexuality � sexual revolution � hymenorrhaphy � sexuology
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