1926. From the Introductory Note: It is generally agreed that marriage and parenthood, under proper circumstances, are the most important events of human life. It is equally true that the best interests of social order require from the individual morality, purity, freedom from disease, obedience to the marriage laws and full support of all measures for the preservation of the family. In the face of such self-evident truths, why is it then that the great majority of parents have neglected the education of their children in sex matters in their own homes, and have abandoned them to the school of the streets for such doubtful instruction as might be obtained there?...This book by Dr. Winfield Scott Hall meets the exact needs of just such a situation. It reveals the needs of society; it explains clearly the nature of the child; it tells the parent just what to say and just how to say it.