Show OUR UR BABY AND MANE MINE MINEI J I Sex Education Is Up to Parents I By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED new to be is nothing c Th There ere d about the necessity for sex education It has been said and reiterated huns hun- hun confirmed firmed con s of times not a few of ofin this column It would im m in n em if one talked only to mem- mem rs rt rIot of study groups and andT that sex education was T TAs TA's AS A'S carried out according to the best advice iee and information available The discrepancy In statistics which tend to prove that about 90 of boys and over 80 of girls get their sex information outside the home arises because because because be be- cause these groups are a limited percentage of the general lation Far more parents do not read read read-or or discount what they do read read and and no not attend these educational groups It is amazing though with all the discussion which emphasizes the vital necessity for such education education education edu edu- cation that there are arc still so 80 many parents willing to leave it to chance They ought to know that children children children chil chil- dren cannot grow up without acquiring some Bome answers to Where do we come corne from Parents Parents Parents Par Par- are eager enough to answer answer answer an an- almost every other question question question ques ques- tion the child asks yet in the field of sex in which personal experience itself would give them some basis for education they pretend to be ignorant Or Orthey Orthey Orthey they sa say Hes too young he wouldn't understand Or why fill their heads with ideas or He doesn't ask me anything By such excuses they attempt to evade their responsibility Meanwhile the child seeks and gets answers from sources which distort and besmirch the truth and leave him with sordid ideas and a shamed attitude which persist through life For many years this column has offered two leaflets to help the confused parent One is called Sex Education which provides the method of telling young oung children and the other is The Help You May Get from Books which suggests books for children and parents to read which shall give them the right information on and right attitudes attitudes attitudes atti atti- tudes toward this vital ital subject Either or both may be had for forthe forthe forthe the usual self-addressed self stamped envelope The leaflet numbers respectively are No 47 and No 78 Children are not ruined by knowledge But they are made uneasy given wrong attitudes and lose confidence in the in intelligence intelligence intelligence in- in of their parents when they refuse to answer simple questions other children seem able to answer While the schools of the future will assume more and more of these burdens all authorities agree that parents however sl sketchy their biological information information information tion are still the best persons to tell children the facts of life |