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Silent Parents!
A survey team of doctors, teachers and clergy, recently reported to the Board of Education, in England: "Most chil dren cannot rely on their parents to tell them the facts ol life, . . . most adults have abdicated their responsibilities for the sex education of their children*. This leaves the children to find their own way in the area where experience is frequently tragic, expensive and traumatic. This is not peculiar, or unique to England. It 'smells' typically American, and the 'sickness of the parents* is evident in our very midst. Just why are parents so 'chicken' when it comes to dealing with one of life’s most powerful 'Appetites’? What does this condition mean to the role of the Church, and the home? On Saturday, November 21st, The Front Royal-Warren Coun ty Council of Churches has scheduled a conference on this problem. Dr. Elmer L. Smith, Professor of Sociology, Madison College, and the Rev. James P. Lincoln, Executive Sectary Dept, of Christian Edu cation of'the Episcopal Church in Virginia, will share their Insights on these topics: 1) Cultural Patterns of Today in Relation to Sex; 2) Background for Sex Education in Biblical Theology; and 3) The Educational Task of the Church in Relation to Sex. There will be no cost for the conference. Lunch will be available, (at 75(S). Who should attend? — Surely, ministers, young adult counselors; Leaders of Church Women' those involved in any part of Christian education, Sunday School teachers and Church officers and representatives of community agenc ies xoqc^rn e (I With youth and‘-finrrtty~flfe. The location: The Front Royal Presbyterian Church, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sure its easy to think of many other things more pleasant to do, and thus be unavailable to attend. . . but who now is 'shirking* their duty?
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