Parenting fail
Aug. 2nd, 2009 05:01 pmA library bans unsupervised children under the age of twelve. This inspires fail.
Sorry, free-range parents, but librarians are not employed to look after your free-range children. And it's nice that your children are perfect. That might console you after they've been abducted by the local paedophilic library-lurker.
This also goes for bookstores. We have a game at work, where we spot the local pervert and kick him out of the store before he gets a chance to expose himself to children. It would be slightly easier if there weren't so many kids and so few parents in the kids section. So no, I don't have any sympathy for the people saying, "But forty years ago I spent whole days in my tiny rural library and never came to any harm!" I have sympathy for the kids, who have to go with the police when their parents don't respond to pages because they've popped out of the store to buy movie tickets.
(Thanks to![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sister_ananke for the link. I really needed that blood pressure spike.)
Sorry, free-range parents, but librarians are not employed to look after your free-range children. And it's nice that your children are perfect. That might console you after they've been abducted by the local paedophilic library-lurker.
This also goes for bookstores. We have a game at work, where we spot the local pervert and kick him out of the store before he gets a chance to expose himself to children. It would be slightly easier if there weren't so many kids and so few parents in the kids section. So no, I don't have any sympathy for the people saying, "But forty years ago I spent whole days in my tiny rural library and never came to any harm!" I have sympathy for the kids, who have to go with the police when their parents don't respond to pages because they've popped out of the store to buy movie tickets.
(Thanks to
sister_ananke for the link. I really needed that blood pressure spike.)
