This was posted on a local board I am on:
what do folks think about "parental consent" for teens wanting to check out certain books? our library has the gossip girl books.
http://www.foxnews.com/search-result...ossip+girls%22
Here is my comment but I would like to know what you guys think:
I don't agree with what these parents are asking for. What I DO think is that the books should be moved to the regular section of the library or bookstores and not be in the "youth" section.
Growing up, I knew TONS of girls (12+) who read "trashy romance" novels. The same books their mothers were reading. I detest them personally but the ones I have seen or read parts of were MUCH more sexually descriptive than what these mothers are ranting about. I also know a lot of kids (me included) read Stephen King as a young teen and I remember a very sexually explicit scene in "IT". Teens don't need permission to get romance novels or horror novels and often, they are worse than what these moms are complaining about. That's just my 2 cents though. I've seen books on "growing up" in the "youth" section at Barnes & Noble that some would view as porn (I know because I've read the reviews online at Amazon when thinking about a particular purchase).