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Originally Posted by DNSB
very upset that the local library still has fantasy books and allows children (her's are 13 and 16) to borrow them.
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Enchanted Forest Chronicles caused them to turn away from the church.
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asked her to justify her "God is love" mantra.
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It appears to me that her children were never "in the church" to begin with. They may have been forced to go to church, but they never understood/believed what they were being taught. And now they are rebelling and trying to find a reason. The fact that they found their reason - in a fantasy book - is what makes me think they were never part of the church in the first place.
This is somewhat normal for children. Parenting is not easy. The problem is not the library having a book that gave them a "reason" to question. The problem is that they were searching for a reason in the first place (again, normal for children, so not necessarily a bad thing, just something that every parent has to deal with).
While I sympathize with this relative's trials in parenting, I do not support the proposed "fix" of not allowing libraries to loan fantasy books to children. I do support keeping things obviously not appropriate for children "behind the counter" (like pornography), but looking to ban fantasy books because of parents religious beliefs is a perfect example of "the slippery slope".