I grant you this and hope by all means it is so. But do not because of
this, settle back into comfortable indifference, for there are greater
dangers than those stated above from which you cannot say your children
are so free.
As children grow up in the home, if it is a right home, they often see
father and mother kiss each other, and perhaps they see the mother
sometimes lovingly drop down upon the lap of father and put her arms
about his neck. The natural question that comes to the mind of the
child is, “why does she do that?” No one has ever taken the trouble to
anticipate this unspoken question and answer it, and the child goes out
to mingle with its playmates of both sexes with this unspoken question
unanswered.
The natural outcome of the child reasoning will be, if one woman can
kiss a man and sit upon his lap, then all women can kiss men and sit
upon their laps. Why not reason in this way? No one has ever taken the
trouble to explain the difference between the married and the unmarried
state and the rights and privileges that belong to the wedded pair,
which rights are recognized by both God and the laws of our land.