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Originally Posted by Rbneader
And some people think that the appropriate way to handle kid's reading material is to read everything before the kid gets to it?
Aside from being fundamentally impossible, how do you think kids react to parents who taking their library books before letting the kid have them? It just teaches kids to hide from and distrust their parents....that's a horrible idea and not something any good parent would do. This app is much better than that.
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Allow me to be the first person whose parents monitored the books he read, to say that you are flat-out wrong in every last point you just made.
If a parent wants to instill a certain values system in their children, they absolutely can, should, and do go through the steps of doing precisely that.
Real parents (unlike the two-dimensional app commissioners and their two-dimensional daughter) are required to interest themselves in their childrens' childhood. This can and does happen.
You may disagree with the values system certain arbitrarily-selected-by-you parents believe in, and you may think it is a tragedy that children are, perhaps, emotionally stunted in your opinion... but all you have done is replaced their values system with yours.
What makes you so absolutely sure your values system is so superior to others' that it should be obligatory for adoption?
Would you, perhaps, like to make a law against parents raising their children according to non-state-approved values systems?