I kind of did things backwards growing up, and couldn't speak in an understandable way until I was 7/8 until I went to speech therapy, however had read all the books in my school library and the individual class libraries I'd been given permission to raid by that point. Being such a voracious reader my family just let me get on with it, so there wasn't any oversight. In those early days I was mostly into Victorian horror, which on its own is probably too much for the pearl clutches, but there was ample sex, drugs, and violence throughout other books. Particularly Piers Anthony with Bio of a Space Pirate and his Tarot series being early reads. Literally no negative repercussions. I would go so as to posit that training children only to be children, withholding key facets of the human condition, is probably doing far more harm.

As did the giraffe.

"We may take high-risk-pregnancy women's lives, but we'll also take... their FREEDOM!!"