Wow, this sure brought out a lot of holier-than-thous from the woodwork! I have no problem with other parents raising their children as they see fit, and I'm not going to sit around and act like they're soooo stupid and I'm soooo much smarter and better.
I read to my children all the time, and I expurgated certain words from the books I read them. I'm not going to use the 'n' word about Jim, for instance, when I read them Huck Finn. I AM going to explain the history of this word and why we don't use it.
Same thing with To Kill A Mockingbird when I read it to them. Scout does swear a bit, and since I didn't want them to think I was okay with my children swearing, I just left out some of those words or changed them. Sue me.
There are a lot of books that have a lot of value in them, and it doesn't lie in the fact that they contain profanity. Losing that bit rarely hurts the book, and if cutting it out will make an otherwise valuable book available to children - well, obviously that was the route I chose.
And as for getting all up in the air about 'changing something someone wrote' - what, pray tell, does every adaptation and abridgment do? That's a specious argument; changing books happens all the time. I get far more upset about going to see a movie made from a book and finding that basically all that has been retained is the title and the poor author's name.
Live and let live, folks. Live and let live.