Let's hope they will bring up healthy and happy children once they know to adjust the number born to what they can afford. Time to get out from Middle Ages existence.

they dont seem to have any problem with sex and making babies. But they have a serious problem dealing with others and learning to fend for themselves.

To think orthodox Jews need drawings to know how to have intercourse or be romantic is childish. Sorry but we wouldn't be having this conversation if it was needed. Jewish people would have gotten extinguished many centuries ago. Or you really think all the Jews from nowadays descend from a couple of chilonim that had sex ed as teens, tv and pron back in the dark ages????

I never got the bird-and-bees talk, and I did just fine!!!

It's news to me that the religious need help figuring out what to do in bed. Proof is in the pudding, and their pudding has lots of raisins in it!!! Why not teach them about birth control instead?

The only thing that frummies are good at is obfuscating the truth. They hide their peccadilloes so well from the outside world through vows of silence and arcane ritual, but that doesn't mean that sins don't occur. Tel Aviv prostitutes have been saying for years that some of their best customers are the ultra-Orthodox. My late parents both said to me (when they were alive) that those who protest over immorality the loudest are the ones most likely to have some kind of scandal in their lives. How many anti-gay preachers end up having gay lovers? I'm just saying.

I trust the book will be sold in a plain brown bag, to avoid offending public morals. I was lucky enough to have two marriage mentors, one to teach me Hilchos Niddah, another to teach me about relationships. When you've only had five brief public meetings before marriage, you need to make up for lost time. When I see the sexualization of young children in the 'outside' world, with pregnant girls, and boys who refuse to accept responsibility, I prefer our more traditional attutude.

MICHAEL, CALIFORNIA Michael, You're not too judgmental, are you? Thats awfully presumptuous of you, to infer that religious people bring up children, who are not healthy and happy. I'm not religious, but I'm just wondering how you can make such a value judgment about hundreds of thousands of people, to say that their children aren't happy and healthy. Also, having lots of siblings, does not preclude growing up happy or healthy. Actually, I think it must be quite fun and lively growing up in a large household and as an adult, having many siblings , nieces and nephews, and cousins for your own children.