TY  - JOUR
T1  - SEx education in schools— a polemic
AU  - Cummins FG
Y1  - 1969/08/11
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1969.03160190062028
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 941
EP  - 942
VL  - 209
IS  - 6
N2  - To the Editor:— 
    Your editorial on sex education in the schools is appalling. It makes unsupported assertions and draws unfounded conclusions, which have no place in a scientific journal distributed to an intelligent audience.You claim that anyone who opposes this ill-advised program is either a right wing extremist or a dupe. This is a broad inditement which I have not found to be the case. Reasonable individuals have studied this sex education and sensitivity program and have found that it replaces the traditional Judeo-Christian morality with the situational ethic of humanism, leading to a quagmire of problems for the young.It is illogical to believe that a detailed knowledge of sex (including perversion), starting in kindergarten, will somehow reduce the problems of promiscuity. Rather, it produces these very problems, as it has in Sweden, where this program has been compulsory in the schools from kindergarten through the 12th grade.
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1969.03160190062028
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03160190062028
ER  -