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In the weekly column “Margriet weet raad” (“Margriet knows best”), an expert from Margriet’s editorial staff answered a wide range of questions, from money worries to extramarital affairs and loneliness. In 1968 a certain Mrs F. v. J.-L. asked the following question: “How do I tell my children?” What matters in this question is the “how”. Mrs F. wondered how she was supposed to tell her children, and apparently she was not the only one asking, since she felt too little attention was being paid to it. She did not get a clear answer either. Instead, readers were encouraged to send in letters from parents who had already taken on the task of explaining things to their children. It is remarkable that Margriet devoted relatively much attention to the subject. This proves that since the 1960s sex was truly the order of the day, and that even the big women’s magazines dared to discuss it quite openly.In the weekly column “Margriet weet raad” (“Margriet knows best”), an expert from Margriet’s editorial staff answered a wide range of questions, from money worries to extramarital affairs and loneliness. In 1968 a certain Mrs F. v. J.-L. asked the following question: “How do I tell my children?” What matters in this question is the “how”. Mrs F. wondered how she was supposed to tell her children, and apparently she was not the only one asking, since she felt too little attention was being paid to it. She did not get a clear answer either. Instead, readers were encouraged to send in letters from parents who had already taken on the task of explaining things to their children. It is remarkable that Margriet devoted relatively much attention to the subject. This proves that since the 1960s sex was truly the order of the day, and that even the big women’s magazines dared to discuss it quite openly.