Several points I want to make:

1) When I was a kid, believe it or not, what people worried about having their children exposed to was comic books. Truly.

2) If music and movies and whatever else that our children are exposed to don't color their thinking and their habits and their expectations, then how did our advertising world become convinced that an advertising blitz works? And, make no mistake about it, this is a blitz.

3) Call me idealistic and naive, but I don't understand why the music media doesn't regulate itself. They have children, fuh gawd's sake; is this what they want for them?

4) I'm not suggesting a review on each cd packet or movie, just a designation of what is suitable for that age group. If parents are into horrific scenarios of war and violence and misogyny and dishonoring human life and that's what they want their child to get into and they expose the child to it, I'm not going to stop them. I might pray, though! Because, aside from the fact I consider it child abuse, that mind set may easily cause problems for society later.

5) Shel Silverstein was a wonderful writer, both for children and for adults. His 'adult' stuff was, in a lot of cases, not suitable for children. I'm not aware of any problem there. And, may I add, his adult stuff is not in the children's section of your local library.

It doesn't seem all that difficult to me.

Ebbie