Parental profanity.

• Author: Sullum, Jacob
• Position: Briefly Noted - Go the Fuck to Sleep - Brief article - Book review

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"Nobody is suggesting that there's a connection between Adam Mansbach's book and child abuse or child neglect," writes journalist Karen Spears Zacharias in a recent CNN essay. Nobody, that is, except Zacharias, and possibly Joan Demarest, who "has good reason to be concerned about the message behind such a parody" because she "was the prosecuting attorney in one of Oregon's most high-profile child murder cases." Also David Arredondo, "an expert on child development" who asks Zacharias to "imagine if this were written about Jews, blacks, Muslims, or Latinos."

I admit that is hard to...