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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But the elephant in the room is that you think by censoring these books the child isn’t exposed to the problem subjects. Naïveté on a pretty startling scale.[/quote]

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No one said that we didn't think kids aren't be exposed to subjects like sex or drugs use or violence at all. But also: a lot of kids really aren't being exposed to all of it these days. It's not like the 80s when kids watched tons of TV their parents were not aware of and were learning about stuff from music videos and sitcoms. My kids and their friends actually really do know very little about these subjects, and what they do know they are mostly getting from trusted adults and not a steady diet of adult-focused popular culture.

That's actually specifically why parents are trying to be thoughtful about what books they recommend to their kids and when they are exposed to these subjects. Because kids today are often more naive than we were at the same age, sex and violence has not been normalized for them in the same way, and they are often more sensitive to it. Pushing them off the deep end without a life preserver isn't going to help anyone.[/quote]

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