Dear Ann Landers,
ur twenty-year-old son returned home from college for Easter vacation. He said, "Mom and Dad, I hope you will be objective about this. I've got a date tonight. The girl is a sure thing. I know I can score. May I use my bedroom or are you going to force me to use the car?" We have two sons, Ann. The other boy is nineteen, and we are permitting them both to use their bedrooms. I feel we are being realistic and modem. Our friends are horrified. We know you are a moralist but we also know you are a realist. Express yourself, Madame.-Winnetka Parents

Dear Winnetka,
The fact that your sons would ask for permission to bring girls to their bedrooms tells me what they think of your morals. Your approval of this wild request is evidence that they did not misjudge you. If one of your "modem" sons gets a not-so-modem girl pregnant, will you be able to look her parents in the eye and accept your share of the responsibility? The following letter may well have been written by one of the girls who went to Winnetka.