I was in the kids section of my local library with my kids. My DS aged 3 passes me a copy of Chucky (cover shot: a huge dagger dripping with blood), the one which was claimed to have a role in the James Bulger killers' turning to violence. My DS says innocently "can I have this one, I like it"? I then saw he had been browsing through 3 other truly horrifically violent books. I went ballastic at the library assistant who was very apologetic that this material had found its way into the kids' section ... as it was meant for the teenage section and they sometimes went and read it in the kids section so no one could see them. Apparently, this is the council's way of making the library relevant to teenagers. By the way, the area I live in (Clapham/Stockwell) is rife with teenager violence (knives/guns). I realise that all this disgusting stuff is on the net but should we be almost condoning this by providing it free of charge in libraries? These kids need protecting - they need to be set better examples surely? Or am I just turning into a fuddy duddy?
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To think it is wrong for libraries to have violent material/porn e.g. Chucky?
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Jules2008 · 21/08/2009 20:56
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