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Dear Ann Landers,
lease print and 17 years of age who reads your this letter for every boy between 15 column. Do they tell the kids that a person's "love" might be severely dampened by resentment and turn to full-fledged hate should that person feel trapped? Do they tell the kids that alternative solutions to an unwanted pregnancy are vastly more difficult to handle than coping with the challenges of virginity? Do they tell the kids that the legality of abortion is insignificant compared to the emotional trauma? Do they tell the kids that giving up a child for adoption is no simple matter for anyone who has had a "meaningful relationship"? Do they tell the girls that keeping an out-of-wedlock baby goes far beyond the enjoyment of having a cute little bundle of joy to cuddle and take for a stroll in the perambulator? Where are those advocates of pre- martial sex when it's time to mend lives suffering from their advice? A SHOULDER TO CRY ON
DEAR SHOULDER,
Thank you for a good letter. I'm glad you offered your shoulder to "cry on." Mine is already the wettest in the U.S.A. (Are you lis-tening, students?) I am a girl of 15. All these boys think about is sex and who they can get it from. If a girl says no, she is shunned and made fun of. The boy will never look at her again. He tells all his pals she is a "dead number,'' and they give her the get-lost treatment. In other words she is a social outcast, doomed to sit home until she becomes more "cooperative" and loosens up. This happened to me and two of my girl friends. Why don't these immature and selfish boys realize they are being unfair? If they are all so fond of mar-rying virgins, why don't they leave a few around? A HOLDOUT DEAR H.O.: Sorry, I don't agree that all boys between 15 and 17 shun and ridicule girls who say no. In fact, the opposite is closer to the truth. It's the put-outs, not the hold-outs, who are shunned and ridiculed. (You ought to read my mail, dear.) Shoplifting SWEATING OVER A SWEATER