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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I remember reading somewhere that it's only been recently that people worried about scaring or grossing out kids and that kids are much more resilient to gore and blood than we think. The article pointed out the Hans Christian Andersen stories, and how graphic they are, but children love them all the same. I think they were discussing how prior to TV / movies / etc. most entertainment was for the whole family, and the goal was to entertain both the adults as well as the youngsters in the crowd.
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There was also the now-unfashionable idea that childhood was when the ignorant and inexperienced were trained and prepared for adulthood, a purpose which is defeated by minimizing exposure to death, want, gore, crime, dismemberment, sex, lying, disease, peversion, thwarted desires and other miscellaneous unpleasantness.
But, then again, in the period into which I probably should have been born, children were either wrapped in swaddling and hung from pegs to keep them out of the way, or they were exposed to the elements and adult diets and activities so the strong would grow more resiliant and the sickly would quickly either die and get out of the way or recuperate, so YMMV.
BR(a caring, supportive society is very nice, but come the revolution/apocalypse/global famine/flesh-eating zombie infestation, the unfit will be left behind)C
