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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I was at the library the other day and a girl who looked about 11 years old came in with a woman who was presumably her mom. She picked out a book for school her and brought it to her mom and her mom kept insisting the book is inappropriate and wouldn't let her check out the book. Just why. What the fuсk was she afraid of her kid reading? It's not like she was checking out a porn magazine.[/quote]

What was the book?
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Right?  OP asks what the mom was afraid of her kid reading, so...what was it?  I have always let my kid read pretty much whatever she wanted, but there are, in fact, books that aren't appropriate for all kids or all ages.  I wouldn't check out a book with graphic violence for her, for example.

Or maybe the book wasn't appropriate for the school assignment that the kid was doing.

I am 100 percent against governmental or institutional censorship, but parents have the right and even the obligation to pay attention to what their kids are reading, and a parent deciding that something isn't appropriate for their kid isn't necessarily nefarious.  [/quote]

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