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N A RECENT issue, Familtj
Weekly reported on a
controversial teen-age
problem steady dating.
Many defend it as security for
adolescents, as preparation
fof marriage. Others vigor
ously attack it as stunting the
social growth of high-school
students, as dangerous . to
morals. Family Weekly read
ers were invited to express
their views. Here is a cross
section of the pros and cons,
from young and old, on this
heated issue.
''3 a ma Kjllljf
v j&.hoy I ever went
with, and it was a
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there might have
been a happier ending. As it was,
an unhappy marriage led to a ner
vous breakdown; we're now divorced
and my husband has remarried, It
all resulted from dating only one and
assuming adult responsibilities too
soon. -M.C., Paducah, Ky.
I'm 18. I write a
teen column for the local newspaper,
The Register, and I've covered the
teen-age angle on steady dating.
I'd like to mention a little about
parents. Some of them judge every
date their daughter has as though he
were a prospective son-in-law. The
way they rake a poor boy over the
coals makes the girl feel as though
she were getting married.
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Family Weekly. April 13. 1958
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Parents who worry about steady
dating don't seem to realize that teen
agers are fickle. I know many who
have "finally found the real thing"
several times. I don't think it's any
thing to worry about, and I don't
think there can be a definite view on
either side of this question. Every
teen-ager is a different story. Kathy
Springer, Beckley, W. Va.
s a father, min
ister, and juvenile
probation officer, I
have close contact
with teen-agers.
From experience
I've' concluded that one can't make
a hard and fast rule for or against
steady dating.
The custom isn't new. Twenty years
ago many teen-agers "went steady."
My girl and I were among the steadi- -est.
We kept our moral standards
high, and I don't think the experience
hurt us. We broke up after high
school and I later married a girl I met
in college. Ours is a wonderful mar
riage with no ill effects from the fact
I had a "steady" in my teens. Even
before my day, when grandmother
was young, it was common for a girl
to marry her first love, and many of
these marriages turned out well.
Don Ian Smith, Pastor, Salmon Meth
odist Church, Sainton, Idaho.
As the mother of
two girls, 15 and 17, and a son, 18, I
feel qualified to speak up for the
younger generation.
Going steady has advantages for
parents as well as youth. Parents can
know where their children are, what
time to expect them home, and, es
pecially, with whom they're spending
their time. You can know your child's
friends better than when there's a
constant change of faces rushing in
and out of your life, some of which,
by the law of averages, will be of
questionable character.
My three have "gone steady" at
least three times each with no ill
effects. Mrs. Glyndon Brummage,
Canton, Ohio.
When I was a
teen-ager, I went to a high school
where two dates with Charlie labeled
you as "Charlie's girl." No matter
how much I wanted a variety of dates,
none of Charlie's friends would even
share a booth with me at a soda
fountain. If I dated a boy who was
out of school, Mother complained that
he was too old for me. I announced
periodically that I was through with
Charlie, but after two or three weeks
of staying home I concluded it would
have to be Charlie or no one. I never
figured out how to break the pattern.
Charlie was nice, but I still think it
would have been nicer to have dated
Tom, Dick, and Harry, too Dorothy
King, Casper, Wyo.
s a bachelor, i
i can't qualify as an
authority on teen
age problems, but
as a disc jockey
I've had a first
hand glimpse of teen-agers at record
hops and dances. What I've observed
at these functions makes Family
Weekly's article a tower of truth.
Steady-dating youngsters seem like
robots in action. The art of conversa
tion is almost entirely missing. Their
dancing (always bop-style, regardless
of the tempo) is completely automatic,
ms1
their faces expressionless. The blush
of excitement and the fresh vitality
that should radiate from a 15-year-old
is never there. Steady dating isn't
security,' it's stagnation. Jay Clark,
New Haven, Conn.
Dating and swim
ming have a lot in common. The first
time you plunge in it's a new and
exciting experience. You can continue
to swim in shallow water, or you'ean
develop your skills and go into deeper
water with more grace and style.
Dating only one person doesn't allow
for development. It's like always
swimming with water wings holding
you up. But what happens when you
get into deep water and the wings are
punctured? Unless you've learned to
swim, you might go under. Cather
ine Martin, Calamus, Iowa.
I've been going
steady for 16 months and I wish I'd
never started.
In my freshman year in high school
I was one of the most popular girls in
the class. I knew every boy and every
boy knew me. As a sophomore, I had
fun, too. Then I started going steady.
Oh, everyone envied me because I had
a class ring, and I was very proud to
be called someone's personal property.
I grew more and more fond of Joe
(that's not his name) and I grew less
and less familiar with the other boys.
I'm 17 now and still going steady,
but I don't know whether I'm in love
with Joe or whether I've just gotten
used to him. Everyone, including Joe,
expects us to marry as soon as I'm
through high school. I don't want to
hurt him, but I'm not sure I want to
marry him either. I go through
mental torture every time I see him,
wondering what to do. Even if I did
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get up enough nerve to tell him, it
would take six months for anyone else
to know I'm not Joe's girl anymore.
J.B., Springfield, III.
've been going
steady for eight
months, and it's
wonderful. Com
panionship is es
sential when
you're growing up. It's a form of
security. You can't find our kind of
companionship by "playing the field."
When you don't have a steady, you '
don't have any reason for trying to
better yourself, either in school or at
work. When you have a steady, and
plan to get married, you want to make
something of yourself. CM. , Verdun,
Quebec, Canada.
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think I would be
'a happier person
today if I had
been permitted to
go steady. Always
a timid girl, I
couldn't push myself at parties or
such. Bob was nice to me, and we
started seeing a lot of each other. I
was comfortable with him. I always
felt sure of myself.
Then came the blow that changed
my life. My parents said I was too
young, that I would have to stop see
ing only one boy so often. At first
Bob was hurt, then he started asking
other girls for dates, and, in time, he
dropped me entirely. I was never
completely happy with anyone else.
This experience, many years ago,
changed me from a serene, calm in
dividual into an insecure one. Lonnie
McCall, Wichita Falls, Tex.
Family Weekly. April 13, 1958
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