Mary Calderone Quotes

Mary Calderone — American Scientist born on July 01, 1904, died on October 24, 1998

Mary Steichen Calderone was a physician and a public health advocate for sexual education. She served as president and co-founder of the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States from 1954 to 1982. She was also the medical director for Planned Parenthood. She wrote many publications advocating open dialogue and access to information at all ages. Her most notable feat was overturning the American Medical Association policy against the dissemination of birth control information to patients... (wikipedia)

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.