“I am as conservative a Christian as they come -”
From a previous post...
Now if there was a very popular childrens series about a couple of crack-addicted, teenage, male-prostitutes - and this series described the kids life and habits in detail (making it all seem fun) and also included a bunch of “life lessons” - would you want your kids to read this?
Remember, it’s all just fiction.
So, would you?
Oh he’s back on the teenage male prostitute thing. Let me guess, you recently got back from Thailand?
it would depend on the setting of the book, the age of my children and the ultimate lessons coming out of the book. If they were going into law enforcement or medicine, and needed the info about how this subset of the society lives, and were old enough to handle it (prob late HS, college) I would not object. This would be mild compared to some of the things I was exposed to in medical school.
In most cases no, but the point is the decision is made on a case by case basis. I actually read Harry Potter first, and determined there is nothing that would harm my children by reading it. We also discussed witchcraft (the real kind, not the Harry Potter kind, and how God feels about it.)
There are some Christian books I do not want my children reading due to the graphic nature of the same. Sorry, the arguement does not hold water.
Just to end this obsessive rhetoric you seem to repeat so often, no editor worth his salt or author for that matter would consider your fictional 'crack-addicted, teenage, male-prostitutes' as appropriate for children.
Let me repeat so you don't get confused.
no editor worth his salt or author for that matter would consider your fictional 'crack-addicted, teenage, male-prostitutes' as appropriate for children.
Try something new.