Dutton Series on Sex Education, The: A Story About You Roy E. Dickerson CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.47.6.771-b Published Online: August 29, 2011

For Boys Only: The Doctor Discusses the Mysteries of Manhood Roy E. Dickerson CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.43.5_Pt_1.633-a Published Online: September 06, 2011

Toward Manhood Roy E. Dickerson CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.42.6.739-a Published Online: August 29, 2011

Roy E. Dickerson is Executive Secretary of the Cincinnati Social Hygiene Society, Cincinnati, Ohio. SUSAN and Harry were married when she was yet a junior in high school and he barely a graduate. Four years later Susan, now the mother of two children by different husbands, was facing her second divorce. &dquo;If I had known the things I ought to have known about marriage,&dquo; she grimly said, &dquo;my first marriage wouldn’t have gone on the rocks. Why wasn’t I taught them before I got married?&dquo; As she spoke, her challenge was not simply that of a single individual-a mother, despairing, disillusioned, seeking help for herself and her babies. She was a symbol of all the boys and girls of this generation, moving on at her age or a few years later to marriage and parenthood. As the future husbands and wives, fathers and mothers of their day, they have a right to demand an answer to her question. The fact that they have is challenging the school administrator especially to realize more fully the potentialities of the public school for education for family life. This has long been a recognized but only partly cultivated field of education. Witness the fine training of girls, shared far too rarely by any boys, in home economics courses, now often broadened to cover the entire field. Witness also the manual training for boys from which girls, to the disgust of some, are commonly barred. Here and there in other courses, more of this field has