From: Nancy Silverrod <nsilverrod>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:20:11 -0700

According to the 2000 US Census, there are gay and lesbian families in 99.3% of all counties in the nation. There are over 600,000 same-sex couples in the US, 30% of whom have children under 18 living with them. Of those with children, 56% have 2 or more children. These figures don't take into consideration children of GLBT parents who are not in coupled relationships. And these figures don't count GLBTQ children and youth, themselves.

 

As librarians, it is our responsibility to provide materials for all members of our communities-?ter all, they are taxpayers. It is also our responsibility to provide a collection that represents many points of view--whether or not we are in agreement with all of them.

 

It is ALWAYS a parent's responsibility to be involved with their child and monitor their reading (and internet use). Every parent should be involved in passing on their "family values." It's not up to the library to determine what those "family values" should be.

 

Nancy Silverrod, Librarian

San Francisco Public Library

100 Larkin St.

San Francisco, CA 94102

415U7D17

nsilverrod at sfpl.org

 

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. -James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (181991)
Received on Wed 22 Jun 2005 06:20:11 PM CDT