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Originally Posted by rcentros
It's funny that movie theaters have figured out how to keep underage children out movies that aren't age appropriate (except when accompanied by a legal guardian). Shouldn't libraries be able to do the same? Couldn't a children's library card be age restricted (like movies) unless the parent decides to override that age restriction?
Seems like a simple solution to me.
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One item is the books in a school library are already "age appropriate" to their student body. Very few if any school librarians would purchase age inappropriate books since that's a rapid way to collecting employment insurance.
For the most part what people seem to be complaining about is not age the book is aimed at but content. For instance, "
My Two Dads" was the cause of a tempest in a teapot back in the mid-teens. A story told from the point of view of the adopted child of a gay couple. Most of the people complaining about the book seemed to be horrified by the possibility that not their children (after all, they were good parents!) but other children would be forced into homosexuality by reading the book. Then there were the ones who espoused the belief that the only reason a gay couple would adopt a child was to groom them, suggesting that their opinion was that all homosexuals are, at best, pederasts). Some of the comments made at that time seemed to indicate that quite a few of those people were upset that being homosexual was no longer deserving of the death penalty in North America.