“Should frum children have a public library card? No, they should not.”
” But to let a child into a library unsupervised into a public library, with access to any all types of shmutz is inadvisable and asking for trouble.”
No reason to think that if they own a library card they will have unsupervised access. Their cards are in my pocket. But it is their responsibility to make sure their books are returned on time or their card becomes frozen.
Other than that I agreed with your post. Very well said.
as an aside, we don’t really have a jewish library here and when we did it was very expensive and pretty inaccessible physically (regarding hours and location). I once took my kids there and there were jewish videos playing one after the other which was not something i was interested in exposing them to. I found that beyond frustrating. it is presently closed.