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Show The Arts of Making Love, of Home-Making and of Child-Bearing By BENJAMIN GLASSBERG, Jewish Welfare Society. IT WELL readily be admitted that the greater part of the basis of a happy married life depends upon a satisfactory sei adjustment. It eannot be built upon inhibitions and frustrations. Xor must we expect ex-pect such adjustment to follow the mere taking of the marriage tow. A Fatisfactory sex life can flourish only in a proper atmosphere. It must be as carefully and tenderly nurtured as a delicate plant ; nothing will more, quickly succumb to a cold, hostile blast. To ignorance of the art of making love should be added that of homemaking and child rearing. rear-ing. Broken homes face us everywhere. Their name is legion. HundredB of thousands of children bear with them throughout their Uvea the blighting blight-ing effects of these domestic bankruptcies. The earliest and most perfect per-fect ideal that it is one's good fortune to possess, namely the child's ideal of his father and mother, is rudely destroyed. Many there are that never compensate for this mental shock. Never before in our history was there so marked an interest in health, especially in the physical and mental health of childhood. The basis for the health of every child is a happy home, a home free from domestic friction, where the parents respect and love each other, both assuming and sharing the responsibilities of the household. The responsibility rests upon the community to prepare the young ' for intelligent parenthood. We must not rest satisfied with a preparation for job, for profession, for avocation. AVe must go further and educate our young for living, for the job of husband, wife and parent. Marriage must cease to be an uncharted sea. It should be clearly mapped out, with lighthouses stationed at every danger point to guide the wayfarer safely i to port. |