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Originally Posted by Wannabeskinny
I would think that considering it's a true story that it would be appropriate for kids to watch and become sensitive to the nature of this subject. I didn't see it yet but I assumed there would be educational value to it - as opposed to seeing Transformers for example. I think the parents were probably taking their kids there for that reason, not to be bad parents and weren't aware of the graphic nature of the movie.
There are some things you don't need to expose your kids to until they are teenagers. That young, they aren't able to emotionally and mentally comprehend it. That's still bad parenting. As a parent, it's your duty to protect them and shelter them and actually care about what you show them, and do research. For example, some rated R movies are OK for high schoolers, like if I had teenagers, and they were interested in literature, I would have let them see The Reader (with me, of course) or The Hours, or any other movie centered around literature that happens to be rated R. But other movies, with say, graphic sex or violent scenes, are just unnecessary to show to them until they're in high school. You can teach your kids about domestic abuse and childhood abuse without taking them to a movie about it.
My dad took my brother to see Terminator 2 when he was like 10 and he had nightmares about it for weeks.
I never really knew about how severe abuse could be until I was in high school and read Beloved by Toni Morrison. My parents always did make an effort to tell me that I have it really good and that others have it worse, and I volunteered. SO that was their way of exposing me to the darker side of life.
