for the homecoming of our brothers and sisters.”
Henri J. M. Nouwen
So he got up and went to his father. “While he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion. His father ran to him, hugged him, and kissed him. Then his son said, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be called your son.’ But the father said to his servants, ‘Quickly, bring out the best robe and put it on him! Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet! Fetch the fattened calf and slaughter it. We must celebrate with feasting because this son of mine was dead and has come back to life! He was lost and is found!’The availability of sex education in large city school districts.
Because relatively little is known about the extent to which sex education is taught in public schools, a survey of school districts in cities with populations over 100,000 was conducted in January 1982. Respondents indicated that sex education, in some form, is provided by 80 percent of the districts, and 85 percent of the 9.3 million students get some sex education in school. The differences in the availability of sex education among elementary, junior and senior high schools are surprisingly small. Rather than provide separate sex education courses, most districts integrate the material with other curriculum subjects. Ninety-four percent of districts with sex education said that one of their major goals is "to promote rational and informed decision-making about