“When you grow up, you have to get married in white…” my mother said. “You have to be pure, that is the best gift to your husband, if they say if you love you will do it…” Phrases like this I hear almost about every week, we have to be pure and white when we get married. It is a constant reminder that we have to be virgins until we get married. I was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and my parents are both Mexican and have grown with very strong Catholic beliefs. Coming from a catholic family is a very difficult thing because it is not only the belief in God and the Virgen De Guadalupe but more like a constant reminder of what we should be. A women especially because if they say they are pregnant before being married, they will seriously be emotionally scolded. The reason I am writing this is because in my MAS 160 class we were talking about how it is important in the Latino community the purity of a women and the gender roles each person in your house holds. For example the dad in this scenario is the hard one, that will not allow their daughter to commit such "sin." according to Mexican family that is a sin, having sexual intercourse before marriage is considered a sin and is unexceptable. The mother is a constant reminder to the beliefs of the Catholic Church, of what is wrong or right, but my thought to this is that we are in different times and it is not the same as it used to be!