CHILDREN AND SEX

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 126, 24 November 1923, Page 17

CHILDREN AND SEX

"What.Children Should be Told " by Dr. G. P. C. Claridge (Jarrold's,'London), ia one more contribution to the now ponderous mass of literature on the subject of how be E t to inform children on the mysteries of sex, and especially the sublimity of generation. Dr. Claridge, in this little book has given his own experience as.a father and a medical man, and he .expresses himself clearly and with great commonsense. At the same time parents who have made it their most important- business in life to study their children will realise that no matter how small or how. large their families may be, every child requires individual attention/ The difficulty about this work, as about so many others dealing with the same subject, is how to make sex-knowledge available in the case of each child. The best that can be done it would seem, is to regard books of this kind as helps rather than set courses in instruction, to be rigidly applied. After all, it is questionable whether children, and young people were morally worse m times when endeavours to impart sex-knowledge were less frequent than they are to-day, certainly not so intelligently applied a s now. Dr. Claridge s book is recommended as a help to parents-the help of a qualified friend -rather than a system to be applied without regard for the diverse and often Pfrploslriß ehwaetwUUe* ef ehlUmi in one i»tnuy.