A 10-year-old girl and her mother were browsing in a library's children's section. The little girl began to read "It's Perfectly Normal," a sex-education book written by Robie H. Harris and published by Candlewick Press. After reading the chapter on child abuse, the girl looked at her mother, pointed to the book and said: "That's me." The girl's abuser, her father, is now serving a 60-year prison term.

A proposed federal law would prohibit schools and libraries from allowing access to social networking Web sites or chat rooms. It was introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) in May. The Deleting Online Predators Act would require public schools and libraries to bar minors from "commercial social networking Web sites" and "chat rooms," such as MySpace and Facebook.