DUTIES OF PARENTS
o Sex Training of Children MELBOURNE DISCUSSION (Received January 18, 9.50 p.m.) Melbourne, January 18. Sex training of the young was discussed by the education section of the congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science to-day. Professor Osborne, Melbourne, described the attitude of many teachers and the general public toward biology as a legacy of a “hush-hush” policy. Professor Dakin said that biology entered into the most intimate relations with all human life. Parents_ should carry out their duties regarding the sex teaching of children. It was a great educational problem, biology offering a way out of the impasse, though sex education was not. biology but merely a phase of the subject.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 98, 19 January 1935, Page 7
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