The Truth About Dr. Ruth's Kids

When your mom is the foremost sex expert, at least the most famous one, you probably still wouldn't want to have "the talk" with her. Luckily doling out relationship advice to her kids was never something Dr. Ruth Westheimer really had to do as a mom — in part, because she didn't want to. As she shared with Closer Weekly, she would leave books around the house to hopefully answer any questions as they came up. And did her children ever ask her for relationship advice? Absolutely not. "Never!" she told the outlet. "I'm glad they didn't. ... [I'd] say 'if you have a question, ask me, and if I don't have the answer I will say so [and] ask an expert." It would probably be hard to find a better sexpert than Dr. Ruth, but her methods seemed to work.

She had a rule against giving sex advice to her children, but Dr. Ruth's grandson probably wishes she had extended that rule to grandkids too. In the Hulu documentary "Ask Dr. Ruth," Ari Einleger said his grandmother gave a sex talk in his fourth-grade class. "[H]e hasn't recovered since," she told reporters at a 2019 TCA event, per The Wrap. She added that her technique of leaving books around the house to answer questions for her kids became a mainstay of both of her kids with their own children as well. If something works well why not pass it on? 

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