LazyAza said:
TheRealCJ said:
LazyAza said:
Parent failed to be a parent, you should ALWAYS pay attention to what your children are picking up at a library, video store, game store, whatever. Ratings and labels exist for a reason, use them.
Also, hang around outside their school during lunch so they don't get into fights or bullied, and do their homework for them.
Really? Your sarcasm just proves how terrible a parent you would be/are. That's complete and utter neglect and laziness you're saying is ok for parents to get aware with. To avoid this entire situation all the parent would have had to do is just once, ONCE take his kid aside and say hey you're a bit young for these so if it has this label you have to tell me ok? Simple, easy, done, success at being good parent. Anyone in the world could educate themselves on the various genres of manga in mere minutes without even having to look at any. There's this thing called the internet.
Now whether the kid does as they are told is up to them, at least the parent could have done the bare minimum instead of being "surprised" that such material is so easily available and blaming the system or god forbid the genre itself for not catering to their narrow minded view of the world.
Your assuming too much of that parent and far too little of the kid.
Libraries are safe places any parent can send there kid by themselves as long as they are old enough to not cut up (10 certanly fits this). it is not uncommon for parents to tell there childern to go to the library and wait to be picked up. the vast majority of kids end up goofing off on the commputers, talking to friends, or reading not-porn. the fact that she did is an aberation, hence why it is news worthy int he first place.
On top of that, it is not unherd of for ten year old girls to start figuring out which way they swing and, therefore, be curious as to what this 'yaoi' stuff is. its also not all that uncommon for them to hide things from there parents. I'm not saying that 10 year olds looking at porn is appropreate, nor am i saying either side is completely in the wrong but this sort of thing just happens sometimes.
the only person who is really at any fault is the girl, and even then all the parent has to do is sit them down and tell them why they should not look at that kind of thing. if it were my kid I'd give them that talk ( porn treats people like objects and our faith forbids you to watch it in my case).
my only issue is why doesn't the library put all the porn and erotica in it's own section instead in with the rest of the adult non-fiction?
note: in this case adult means written for an adult audience, not porn.
