Show TRAIN YOUTH FOR parenthood by DR LEWIS 0 FRANKLIN nw new york youth should receive as much preparation for marriage and parenthood as young people who train to be teachers or ministers or social workers failure fa to prepare young people for home making is largely responsible for the apparent breakdown in home life at the present time there is disenchantment about conventional christianity which has often been proven irrelevant to the ultimate purposes of life the vigorous frankness of the present is highly preferable to the inhibitions and repressions of event in the recent past we deplore the waywardness of our present day youth when they but imitate their elders we plead for better young people when our great need is better parents god seems capricious indifferent indulgent preoccupied to many youths today because of similar characteristics in their own earthly fathers the stage the modern novel the moving picture have held high carnival in dealing with marriage from the point of view of the sex life the prudishness of otherwise estimable folk has left the field open to a distorted and unhealthy realism to which even the most immature minds bare are susceptible |