If you are a parent of one or more teenage children, should you try to force your children to date only converted young people—or those of your choice? You’ll drive them directly the other way, if you do! Your responsibility is to teach your children the truth—and teach them, as they grow up, gradually to assume more and more responsibility themselves. Of course, this teaching ought to begin during their first year of infancy. For many of our readers it will be too late for that, now. Then use tact. Your children may now be past the age where you can guide their lives. They have minds of their own. But, in sympathetic understanding and tact, try to induce them to be willing to counsel with you in regard to general principles and truths. But never try to pick for them the one they are to marry. If you have a choice, above all, never let them know it—unless they voluntarily ask your counsel and advice. Otherwise, you’ll drive them the opposite direction!