Honesty and truth are not absolute. The delivery is quite important, as is the environment in which this delivery occurs. In a family environment where parents

Honesty and truth are not absolute. The delivery is quite important, as is the environment in which this delivery occurs. In a family environment where parents have been honest with their children, their children were nurtured in a different way, so examples such as these are quite meaningless. For the sake of argument: > "Do you like my latest bit of art? toilet roll glued to a box" You're a regular Duchamp! As for the multiple choice question (which is worse than a CNN poll), how about none of the above, or c). (Father has already explained the situation in an honest way to his son, explaining, too, the precautions he -- and the town -- are taking to keep his son safe.) In the end, though, one of the "lies" that parents have been telling children for ages now is the bedtime story where the children are killed to teach a harsh reality: back then, children died quite often.