This Salon piece offers a compelling argument for why teens should read adult fiction and reminds us that exposure to “mature” themes in adolescence is not only survivable, but also essential to “moral development.”
“They’re equipped with a strength and ingenuity they’re not often enough credited with. Life’s genesis and termination — and every gradation of human experience in between — is their birthright. They are entitled to learn about it at exactly the rate it is appropriate to their individual moral development to do so. And as long as you love them enough, they’ll end up basically OK.”
