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...counselor to parents in Baby and Child Care, Dr. Benjamin Spock won the devotion of a generation of child-raisers. As antiwar activist, he lost many of his mature admirers but gained hordes of young worshipers. Now, as adviser to adolescents in A Teenager's Guide to Life and Love (Simon & Schuster; $4.95), Dr. Spock advocates many of the old virtues and expresses views that he admits may be derided by the young...
...Teenager's Guide, Dr. Spock turns thumbs down on tobacco, alcohol and marijuana. He is against anything but group dating until 16 or 17 and, in most cases, anything "beyond kissing and embracing" if there is no "commitment to marriage." Dirty clothes and messy rooms are inexcusable and represent nothing more than "nose-thumbing" at parents. Daily showers and underarm deodorants are important, as are politeness and "getting chores done before your parents have to prod...
...Taboo. In some of his advice, Spock veers from the traditional. He advises the boy who aches after petting because he has refrained from intercourse to "solve the problem by allowing or encouraging himself to have an orgasm." About young people who make an "arrangement" by living together, he writes: "If the idea is acceptable to them, it may be a responsible way to enter marriage...
...that all the military people knew he was a World War II Navy veteran; he affected a when-in-Rome costume of field boots and green fatigues with his name sewed on the shirt pocket. And he did not advertise that he had defended Michael Ferber at the Dr. Spock trial...
...STATUS of the suburban housewife, Slater is brilliant. When the society demands-and Dr. Spock declares-that the mother become the primary child-rearing instrument, her sexuality must be muted. The American housewife, Slater writes, has become thoroughly desexualized. In most societies, a woman does not become full-fledged sexual being until she is married. In America, the erotic standard is based upon mindless nymphets and (does the term betray the childlessness of our preoccupations?) glossy playmates...