To The Editor:
I read with much interest your piece on Foundation University teenagers acting like parents for a month with their doll “babies” (Feb. 20). Many years ago, I read of a similar program in an American school where students were made to care for doll “babies” also.
I wonder how the program at FU provides a balance in how the young people may be discouraged from becoming young parents before they’re ready, and developing a healthy attitude for real parenthood later in life? Does this become a problem, I wonder? Since FU has been doing this for some nine years already, I would be interested in knowing if there has been a follow-up study, what kind of parenting the young people who passed through the program show when they marry and have children? If someone has written a thesis on this, may I know so I can read it?
Lorna Pena-Reyes Makil
Retired sociologist
Daro, Dumaguete City
