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I guess I'll buck the trend here too.
Just like I would expose my child to other cultures - like Native American, Russian, African, Amish, etc, I would have no problem with using those books to expose my child to old-fashioned American family culture.
Of course there are some cultures I don't want my child exposed to - the drug culture is an extreme example, there are of course milder ones. And if I were given a book about a culture I was not going to teach my child, I would not use or keep the book.
But whether those books talk about a culture that you are comfortable exposing your child to and saying "some people live like this, you'll have friends whose parents and family life are like this, but we are different", or whether you want to toss those books into the "I won't expose my child to that" pile... is up to you.
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