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Subject: Re: Mr., Ms., Miss, and Mrs. - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 27-Jun-83 19:44:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 27 19:44:51 1983
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Roy Walters submitted an article saying:

	Parents think it's "cute" that their children call adults by their first
	names. This breeds illmannered and impolite people. Respect must be
	taught at an early age or it will never learned.

"Respect" will be learned, or not learned, regardless of whether
children are allowed to talk to adults as friends.  My wife and I
belong to a church where most of the kids use first names for most
of the adults; but the Southerners who want to be called Mrs. ----
are usually called that, and the kids whose parents are Southerners
mostly know which adults insist on first names and which adults will
permit kids to call them Mr./Mrs. . (I'm picking on southerners
because most of the people who care about the issue are from the
south.)  I prefer to be called Bill, and find it much easier to
relate to kids on a first-name basis.  

	Kids often have trouble remembering that Joe Smith is named
"Mr. Smith", if he's called Joe by everyone.