This thread makes me appreciate my mom. She was, I think, ahead of her time (I"m talking about 1950s and 1960s, and we were in the conservative south). There weren't books exactly like this one, but what there was, she got for me.

I remember a kerfuffle when I was age six or so -- some church lady was upset that I knew and used the word "pregnant." My mom was occasionally known to tell people "you raise your child and I will raise mine." Fairly radical for the preacher's wife in that time and place.