Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality: Guidelines for Education Within the Family [Paperback]

Pontifical Council for the Family (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 60 pages
• Publisher: United States Catholic Conference (February 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 157455090X
• ISBN-13: 978-1574550900
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,035,597 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, reassuring, empowering advice for parents, January 17, 2001

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Margaret Gallagher (Vienna, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality: Guidelines for Education Within the Family (Paperback)

Talking to children about sex can be a sticky wicket -- and evaluating how children are being taught this subject in school is even stickier. Parents are easily polarized by this subject, but this beautiful document from the Pontifical Council is balanced and unifying. It is also very specific in its recommendations, which is very helpful for both parents and educators. If the Catholic Church had a "marketing department," every Catholic parent would have a copy of this document. It's probably the single most important document out of Rome for a parent to have read. The fact that it is so recent is a bonus. Catholic parents should not only buy a copy, they should take it to their pastors, their Catholic school principals, etc. and brainstorm for ways to see the document distributed more widely. (In other words, don't buy one copy, buy ten and share!) Despite the subtitle, the guidelines within this document include directives specifically for "sex education" (or biology, human reproduction -- whatever it's called, it's the same thing) in schools, though it is clear that the Church's first choice is to see the subject taught one on one, at home.