The ABC's of Choosing a Good Wife

I thought this was a very good book, one that should be shared with your daughters in their teens and early 20's. Solid advise and good tips that can help avoid potential heartache! Wish I'd had this book a long time ago.

This book takes a new approach to dating, courtship and selecting a mate. I wish I had read this before starting to date.

Wow, what a poor rating this book has recieved! I do not think that it is at all warranted. In fact, I have sincere suspicions that this boils down to the conservative/liberal division within The Chruch. I am a traditionalist Catholic who values the actual dogmae Ecclesiatici and deplores all this disobedience to the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, covert heresy, feminism, and communism among the human component of Holy Mother church. I pray God that we return to the Tridentine Mass as the Ordinary and Exclusive Form of the Rite and clear out the filth of heresy that has infected our seminaries. These are my qualifications and anyone who is pursuing the solid dogmae of the Fides Veritus Solus will listen. I am especially in disdain of the "graduate studies" priest who uses it as a platform for heresy and bad counsel. Millstones, my friend, beware the millstones. This book is fairly solid. Stephen Wood has a good grasp of the proper gender roles necessary to a Catholic Civilization. It's generally very good advice in line with the tradition of the Church 100%. Perhaps his book is given one star because it deplores fornication and encourages chaste courtship in a drive-thru culture of dating and deceit? Or was it his references to Scripture or the Early Church Fathers? Was it his insistance that annulments are to be avoided thorough an intelligent understanding of the Church's guidlines for a valid sacrament and not as a twisted form of "Catholic divorce"? Or is it, oh my, how he strongly recommends the Church's age-old stance against marrying anyone but a Catholic? To all of which I say, "God forbid that we orthodox (little o) young men should want a guide on how to marry and marry well within the Church." I'm 21 by the way. And I've seen the world of unorthodoxy people like this have manufactured and am disgusted. What's more, I wish to discourage at least "Boy Meets Girl" as too Protestantum and encourage those works on courtship and marriage offered by TAN, as well as "Courtship and Marriage" by Fr. John A. O'Brien in 1949. I suggest the reader find as old a copy as well. I am afraid more recent editions may somehow change the gold which was casted in the Great Age before the Hideous Apostacy that follow the Sacred yet much-attacked (by demons during its gathering) Vatican II Pastoral Council. I believe what I have written here to be sufficient.

Hi, This isn't just for teens! Yes, there maybe some references in the book that seem more like "teen" kind of things. However, even an adult looking for a true husband is able to glean something out of this book. I find that "courtship" is a better word for true "dating". Usually, it takes a few months to one year to get to really know someone even if you live long distance. If you really think that person is Mr. Right, then its time for the "courtship" stage where you get more serious and this is still before engagement. It's like a pre engagement stage. Once you are engaged--you shouldn't have to be thinking "what if I am wrong". You should KNOW once you follow the advise in this book. That way the engagement stage is REALLY the time to Prepare for Matrimony and not have to worry so much. So, give this book a try even if you are an older adult looking for the "perfect" husband. He's out there--just give it a try!

If young men and women would read and heed this book we would probably have less divorce. I know that if I had read this book before I got married we would have had less "bumps" in the road during those first few years. This book helps you ask the pertinent questions to see where you may have the problems and correct them before you get married. I recommend it highly for anyone who is even thinking about the dating game. It's a great alternative. The younger the reader the better!Pre-teens would be my suggested audience. Moms and Dads - you will be glad that you purchased this book early and save yourself and your kids a lot of heartache.