Dear Ann Landers,
ou are a menace to society. You really gave every irresponsible skirt-chasing male in the world the green light when you said on a TV program recently, "Unless a boy uses chloroform or a lead pipe, the girl is re-sponsible for whatever happens to her." For twenty years I have been a housemother for unmarried mothers. These girls are victims of weapons far more deadly than chloroform or lead pipes. They are sweet words of love and empty promises. It's high time parents taught their sons that girls are not play-things to be used for pleasure and then cast aside if something goes wrong. Every young man should be taught that a decent 190 boy is responsible for his girl. Several of my pregnant girls saw and heard you make that remark, and they became depressed because you placed all the blame on them. This letter is to let you know that I am canceling the subscription to the paper that prints your column.-Housemother

Dear Housemother,
You are right when you say a decent boy should be responsible for his girl, but not all boys are decent. Moreover, out-of-wedlock pregnancies involve more than decency. There are such factors as permissive parents, sexy movies, liquor, unchaperoned parties, midnight beach blasts, and going steady. Most sixteen-year-old boys are not thinking about love and marriage. The juices are flowing and the boys are out looking for kicks. The girl is responsible for whatever happens to her because some boys will take what-ever they can get plus whatever they can talk a girl in to. She'd better know it and conduct herself accordingly.