Who do you want raising your kids, parents or librarians? Public Librarians make no money to do their current job, we shouldn't expect them to take on the parental role as well. What may be age appropriate for one family, might not be age appropriate for another, and we shouldn't expect public librarians who make nothing to make the decisions.
Or do we just let the most sheltering hyper sensitive parent decide what is appropriate for the rest of us?
Who do you want to give up your parental authority to?
Really? It is a volunteer position with no pay?
"Who do you want raising your kids, parents or librarians? Public Librarians make no money to do their current job, we shouldn't expect them to take on the parental role as well."
That is utterly wrongheaded.
We're not asking them to follow kids around and save them, just to refrain from harming them. That's not taking on the parental role; it's just refraining from taking on the role of the debaucher.
"What may be age appropriate for one family, might not be age appropriate for another, and we shouldn't expect public librarians who make nothing to make the decisions."
I'm not asking them to make a decision; I'm deciding and telling them what they are to do.
"Who do you want to give up your parental authority to?"
You want to talk about parental authority? How about going up to the refugees from the sixties that work at the library and telling them, "If my sons or daughters are exposed to porn on your watch, I'm going to take you out behind the library and stomp the crap out of you?"
They'd lose the excuses and do it, if they wanted to.
Actually the head librarian in Multnomah County makes over $100,000.