The way you people are talking it´s a miracle everyone doesn´t grow up to be a crack addict.
My point was that a number of parents think that "protecting" their kids from the evils of the real world often back fires. Children hear about 99.9% of the world from their parents before ever experiencing any of it. That map you give your children, if it strays far from reality, can lead to serious problems. I have plenty of friends who are living less than enviable lives as a result of this parenting based on "protecting the purity of the child" stuff.
Also, many parents fear that one false step, one wrong move, one penis viewing at age nine and their kids are one step closer to giving blow jobs to johns to score their next hit. It´s us against this unpure, unholy moralless, valueluss(whatever that means) world!!!!!!