Online gambling, critics contend, feeds addiction, corrupts children, wrecks families, bankrolls criminals and launders money.
In 1954, Dr Frederic Wertham's influential Seduction of the Innocent argued that comics were corrupting children, and led to decades of censorship.
The state's superintendent, John D. Matthews, lobbied for the bill, claiming that a failure to educate teachers in Kentucky would result in Northern teachers infiltrating the state and corrupting children's minds.
They nervously wondered if the Japanese media franchise was corrupting children by glorifying animal fighting, addicting them to Game Boys, or sending them Satanic messages through a cartoon theme song.
For example, marriage equality organizations decided not to showcase any LGBTQ families during the Prop 8 battle in California out of concern that showing our families with kids would feed into the right wing's fear-mongering messages about gays "corrupting" children.
Kim Aubry, an executive at the American Zoetrope film studio in San Francisco, who was visiting their suite at the Stein Ericksen Lodge, said, "Their children have corrupted my children -- they shop in all the best stores".
Spending her life post-dad under the watch of a corrupt child psychologist and her teenage years in a violent institution could skewer anyone's perspective – let alone someone left with the burden of their father's apparent misdemeanors.
People will perhaps be keen to paint this as a curmudgeonly assault on the popular Harry Potter, painting him as an evil abomination that has corrupted our children and heralded the death knell of children's fiction, but that is a shallow reading of a complex series that delights in layering meanings and references in the playground of our imagination".
"They were used as very lavish centerpieces, the way marzipan and sugar were used, but then jelly became corrupted by children's parties".
I'd managed to get through the account of a baby's face mangled by an inept midwife in the English countryside, also an ill-fated forceps extraction and a tour of maternity wards corrupted by childbed fever.
