“This solution has great superficial appeal--all the excitement of secret, forbidden, romantic sexuality without family responsibility and family grubbiness.”

—  Benjamin Spock

Source: Decent and Indecent: Our Personal and Political Behavior (1970), p. 62

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American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care 1903–1998

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