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Are restricted ratings on books in our children’s best
interests?
Family First did not apply for an interim ban on Ted Dawe’s Into the River, but its
national director, Bob McCoskrie, sees it as an opportunity to review how our
censorship laws can be better used to protect our children from inappropriate
and offensive material. Stricter censorship, he believes, is in our
children’s best interests.
Is he right? Are our children better off being unable to
access books that might offend or disturb them?
Talking with a secondary school teacher, a librarian and a
bookseller, the answer they give is a resounding ‘No’.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2015
From the NZ Book Council Blog - Are restricted ratings on books in our children’s best interests?
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