Random Post #9: Rating Restrictions for Under 18 Year Olds
What's Up everyone? Anything new and exciting happening??!! :) Once again I've got a topic that I think is worth discussing... Ratings on books! A couple of years ago, I wrote a post that got a LOT of traffic and comments, both negative and positive, involving a certain famous blockbuster dystopian series. (You can find that post HERE ). Anyway I wanted to take that post and sort of expand the topic a bit. To be honest when it comes to Ratings in books, the book industry doesn't do a good enough job in protecting our children. I don't know about where you live, but where I live we do not get carded if we buy an "Adult" book. And while I will admit when I was a teenager (which wasn't that long ago) I sometimes found myself wanting to read some of those promiscuous reads; I am 22 now, and while I'm not ready to have children of my own, I do work with children, elementary school kids to be exact. I see how innocent some of these kids are,...