Editing Going steady (section)

{{short description|Exclusive romance}}
'''Going steady''' is when two romantic partners agree to an exclusive relationship.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Jacqui |title=Sex, Puberty, and All that Stuff: A Guide to Growing Up |publisher=Barron's |year=2004 |isbn=0-7641-2992-9 |location=New York |pages=62}}</ref>  Growing in prevalence in the United States after [[World War II]], this pattern became mainstream in high schools and colleges in the 1950s.<ref name="flc">{{cite journal |last1=Poffenberger |first1=Thomas |title=Three Papers on Going Steady |journal=The Family Life Coordinator |date=Jan 1964 |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=7–13 |doi=10.2307/581501 |jstor=581501 }}
*{{Cite journal|date=1964|title=Errata: Three Papers on Going Steady|journal=The Family Life Coordinator|volume=13|issue=3|pages=78|doi=10.2307/581440|issn=0886-0394|jstor=581440}}</ref> Its popularity continued through the 1980s, with teenagers beginning to go steady at progressively earlier ages. However, the label "going steady" fell into disuse in the 1970s.<ref name="spurlock">{{Cite book|pages=63–116|title=Youth and sexuality in the twentieth-century United States|last=Spurlock|first= John C.|date=2016|isbn=9781138817487|location=New York|oclc=898926426}}</ref>