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by Anonymous User on Wed Apr 26, 2006 at 05:52:14 AM PDT

By harm, are you referring to exposure to materials that _you_ would deem inappropriate for children?

I've been to my public library, and hard as I looked I couldn't find the porn section. I suppose it's possible my son might stumble on a National Geographic and see pictures of semi-naked people, but as long as he reads the articles and, gasp, learns something, I think I'd be OK with it. (IMO)

I believe in taking responsibility for my own child and not expecting other people, especially government employees, from doing my job. When I take him to the library I monitor what he's looking at, not because I'm concerned about the content, but because he might need an age-appropriate explanation of what he's seeing.

Frankly, if he wants to get more information about breast cancer (my wife was diagnosed about a year ago), I don't want someone else deciding that he shouldn't see that material because breasts are involved.

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