Ellen White spoke strongly against boys and girls being alone together or mingling freely without supervision. Here are key points from her writings: - She warned that allowing young boys and girls to be together unsupervised leads to early romantic attachments and immodest behavior: "They have scarcely entered their teens before they are by the side of little girls about their own age, accompanying them home, and making love to them. And the parents are so completely in bondage through their own indulgence, and their mistaken love for their children, that they dare not pursue a decided course to make a change, and restrain their too fast children." (SA 154.1) - She criticized the idea that boys and girls should mingle together for health or social reasons, stating it increases temptation and moral danger: "The corrupting doctrine that has prevailed, that, from a health standpoint, the sexes should mingle together, has done its mischievous work... the association of boys and girls only increases the evil." (CTBH 136.2) "It is not the time to recommend as beneficial to health the mingling of the sexes, their being as much as possible in the society of one another. The curse of this corrupt age is the absence of true virtue and modesty." (4T 95.3) - She urged parents to be vigilant, to know where their children are, and to prevent unsupervised meetings: "Every son and daughter should be called to account if absent from home at night. Parents should know what company their children are in, and at whose house they spend their evenings." (CE 33.3; CT 332.3) - She described how unsupervised association leads to immodesty and moral decline: "Young girls attend meetings and take their seats, it may be, with their parents, but more frequently back in the congregation. They are in the habit of making an excuse to leave the house. Boys understand this, and go out before or after the exit of the girls, and then, as the meeting closes, they accompany them home... excuses are made to walk, and boys and girls assemble in the fair grounds, or some other secluded place, and there play and have a regular high time, with no experienced eye upon them to caution them." (2T 481.2) - She advocated for keeping boys and girls busy with useful labor to reduce opportunities for unsupervised interaction: "Let boys and girls be kept employed in useful labor. If they are tired, they will have less inclination to corrupt their own bodies." (2T 482.3; SA 180.2) - She also stated that if a young girl is approached with familiarity by a boy, she should be taught to resist such advances: "If a young girl just entering her teens is accosted with familiarity by a boy of her own age, or older, she should be taught to so resent this that no such advances will ever be repeated." (2T 482.2) In summary, Ellen White consistently counseled against boys and girls being alone together or mingling freely, emphasizing the need for parental vigilance, modesty, and structured activity to safeguard their morals. References: - White, E. G. (1890). The Adventist Home (Selections from SA, CTBH, 4T, 2T, CE, CT) - White, E. G. (1870-1885). Testimonies for the Church, Volumes 2 and 4. - White, E. G. (1890). Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene. - White, E. G. (1923). Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students. - White, E. G. (1893). Christian Education.