in this regard...that coeducational schools were best and that sex education should be taught in the schools. Dean Swift mentioned the importance of education not only in the schools but in the church and home. Especially in the home, he said, there should be a deep love between parents evident to the child so that he may find a desire for the same thing when he grows up

II--"Homosexuality, A Psychological Approach"Sept. 29, 1956.

Panel consisted of Dr. Phillip Pollatin, psychiatrist; Dr. Harry Backwin, pediatrician, and the moderator. Dr. Backwin said that according to Dr. Kinsey some 50% of children indulge in sex play with the same sex...that this was a normal phase of childhood. Dr. Backwin also mentioned what he considered a constitutional or inborn deviation, that of a small group of boys who dressed as girls.

Dr. Pollatin felt the genesis of the whole matter lay in the realm of the parent-child relationship where there might be an aggressive, dominant, controlling mother and a passive, meek father or, on the other hand, the picture might be reversed to the other extreme where the father was dominant, but threatening to the child. He said that the emotional climate was different for each child of the same parents so that one could never say that brothers and sisters had had the same "environment", even though they were raised in the same family.

Dr. Backwin felt that it was more a matter of different susceptibilities; that the "soil" was different in each case; that it was an inborn 'potential perhaps transmitted through the genes. He felt that given this "fertile soil" together with an unhappy family life and a chance meeting with an aggressive adult of the same sex, a homo sexual would develop. Dr. Pollatin countered that a latent homo sexual person who was never brought out would nevertheless have neurotic symptoms of his problem. The moderator queried as to whether with a bad marriage constantly before the child, would he try to escape the heterosexual relationship? Dr. Pollatin didn't think the cause was that direct. Dr. Backwin said that those

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