Swearing is artificially powerful language, and kids are especially prone to abusing any shred of power they can get (because of fully justified insecurity abou

Swearing is artificially powerful language, and kids are especially prone to abusing any shred of power they can get (because of fully justified insecurity about how much power they have). So if you allow swearing it they'd just ruin the artificial language power hierarchy for everybody. Devil's advocate: maybe they should!