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PART I
Sex-Instruction in the Home 1
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HIS is a book on sex-instruction, and is written for parents. It is
to help you to give your children the information and |
the training in purity they need. It must be said at once that the instruction given here is
largely spiritual, and utterly different from what non-Catholics call sex-instruction. They give
detailed information about sex to their children, hoping that knowledge will solve all their
difficulties. We give our children what facts are necessary, but we concentrate chiefly on
training their will and their character. That is the only real solution to the problem of
sex-instruction.
Do they need help?
Think back to your own childhood. Some of you, when you remember how you found out the facts of
life, may now wish that you had learned them from a better source. Give your children the help
which you would like to have had when you were young.
Actually, the whole problem is far more urgent now than when we were young. Then, sex was
secret; to-day, it is advertised. Everywhere, your children are being taught 'Hollywood'
morals, at the pictures, on the posters, in the newspapers, everywhere. So, if they are to
get a sane, correct, Christian attitude towards sex, it must come from you, in the home.
Too many parents "leave them to find out for themselves". That is not right. To prove it,
here are some figures from America.2 Two thousand high-school
boys were questioned
1 Based on an article in The Clergy Review, May 1949.
2 Lumen Vitae, 1947, No.3 "The American Adolescent and Religion", by Urban Fleege.
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