Ask young people about the advantages and disadvantages of having one day in the year when it is OK to be romantic. Is it a chance for people to declare what they feel? Or is it an artificial pressure that distorts people's thoughts about each other?
What about people who don't get a card? How does it feel to think that the whole world has an admirer, except you?
Some people send Valentine's as a joke. But jokes that the receiver takes seriously can be damaging. The story of Thomas Hardy's novel Far From the Madding Crowd is based on a joke Valentine's card. It completely unbalanced a respectable bloke. That was written 130 years ago,but might it still happen today?
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