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96/275/5 Booklet, 'Children no longer! A guide for parents on understanding the adolescent', paper, by The Father and Son Welfare Movement of Australia, Australia, 1962. Click to enlarge.

Booklet, 'Children no longer!' by The Father and Son Welfare Movement of Australia

The Father and Son Welfare Movement of Australia was founded in 1926 with the aim of providing authoritative sex education for young people as well as marriage and family guidance. In the years between 1954 and 1956 it issued its first set of nine sex education guides and its output since then has been prolific. In 1969 alone its sale of sex education books exceeded 1.5 million copies (in a country whose population was less than 12 million). It also produced recordings and sent out speakers to …

Summary

Object No.

96/275/5

Object Statement

Booklet, 'Children no longer! A guide for parents on understanding the adolescent', paper, by The Father and Son Welfare Movement of Australia, Australia, 1962

Physical Description

Booklet, 'Children no longer! A guide for parents on understanding the adolescent', paper, The Father and Son Welfare Movement of Australia, Australia, 1962.

This soft-cover, staple-bound booklet carries on its cover a black and white illustration of a boy and a girl surrounded by newspaper articles about 'youth' and 'teenagers'. Its three sections deal with physical development, psychological development and spiritual development.

Marks

Title and publisher printed on the frontspiece, in black, 'Children No Longer / Foreword by / Professor Harvey Sutton, O.B.E. / Father & Son / WELFARE MOVEMENT OF AUSTRALIA/ Inc. MOTHER & DAUGHTER SECTION / SYDNEY MELBOURNE BRISBANE ADELAIDE NEWCASTLE'

Dimensions

Height

180 mm

Width

125 mm

Source

Credit Line

Source unknown

Acquisition Date

13 August 1996

Cite this Object

Harvard

Booklet, 'Children no longer!' by The Father and Son Welfare Movement of Australia 2022, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, accessed 30 March 2023, <https://ma.as/152169>

Wikipedia

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