Please there are books in this world that even adults with discriminating tastes don't read even if they are a intended for their age range or reading pleasure. Honestly the children can make poor choices adults can to that's Part of being human which I think every single one of us on this list is at least the last time I checked. Younger ones should be perhaps watched more closely and older ones may be as well if they showed signs of internalizing the bad parts of what they read to a certain extent. I must say at the age of 17 I myself read books that are intended for adults from book share mind most of these books are history or historical fiction And fantasy but I always make sure they don't have adult content yes markers on them. Not to say that most children would do this but any child with good taste knows that a book written with More sexual content and extreme violence then story line should not be read by them. Sometimes if I run into one that has this I may read it and plan from that day forward never to read it again. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 11, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Indeed it is no different from movie ratings. If a movie is rated X then > people under a certain age are simply banned from seeing it and that is > censorship. Simply declaring censorship to not be censorship does not make it > not censorship. If it is the parent who is making the decision for the child > then declaring that not to be censorship does not make it not censorship > either. There are certainly some decisions that parents or other guardians > must make for children. I remember, for example, grabbing a little girl whom > I was in charge of and yanking her from the street. She resisted. She stopped > resisting when she saw the car that was bearing down on her, but prior to > that she had not seen the car and seemed to be resisting me just because I > told her to get out of the street. In that case she was making the wrong > decision and my decision for her had to overrule her own decision. I might > also point out that she was making the wrong decision because of a lack of > information. That is, if she had seen the oncoming car she would have most > likely made the same decision that I was making for her. There are other > decisions that the parents need to stay out of the way of though. Reading is > one of the safest activities that there are. Just stop by your local > emergency room and ask how frequently they find themselves treating reading > related injuries. I will bet you that the rate is very low. Children quite > often have entirely different interests from their parents. Parents are > likely to think that their children should have certain interests and impose > those interests on the child whether the child likes it or not. There could > be any number of results and one of them could well be that the child will be > even more turned off from the subject than they would if it had not been > imposed on them. To not allow a child to pursue one's own interests strikes > me as bordering on child abuse itself. Generally, though, there is nothing to > worry about anyway. Most children will not understand books meant for adults. > What happens when you start reading a book that you do not understand? You > get bored with it and put it down. If you are a child you will go back to the > children's category and choose books that you will understand and read those. > There are, however, some children who will understand books intended for > adults. By banning them from choosing those books you are stifling what may > turn out to be some really great potential. Again, let us concentrate on > helping children make wise decisions where it really matters and get out of > their way when it comes to pursuing their own interests. > On 11/11/2012 3:04 AM, Doug Maples wrote: >> We've gone down this road before, and probably will again in the future, but >> I'll have to once again state the obvious. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.