by Bruce Watson

About the author: Bruce Watson is the president of Enough Is Enough, a nonprofit organization focused on making the Internet safer for children and families.

How would you feel if your 11-year-old son went down to the public library and checked out Deep Throat, the hard-core pornographic video? Or your 9year-old daughter stumbled across Hustler magazine during a research project in her classroom at school"

Most parents would experience something between shock and outrage, plus an element of pure surprise. But, of course, these are purely hypothetical examples—schools and libraries don’t offer pornographic magazines and videos to kids. In fact, even for adults, it is almost unheard of for public libraries to have materials such as Hustler or Deep Throat in their print or video collections...