Unauthorized informal copies carry the most dangerous versions of parenting texts
Evidence
Second: the fourth channel — the informal bookstall and informal-market distribution network — is the least visible and probably the most operationally consequential. The Focus on the Family affiliate in Lagos operates under some degree of public scrutiny. The informal-market photocopy of To Train Up a Child sold for 200 naira from a trestle table outside a Lagos Pentecostal church operates under none. And the informal channel is also the channel least likely to carry whatever caveats or contextual framing the formal publisher might attach in later editions. The most dangerous versions of any pedagogical text are the ones that travel outside the editorial apparatus that produced them. — , The Rod and the Child, 4587
Categorization
- SEED: Angle: how editorial control shapes harm — the same dynamic applies to radical texts, self-help, medical misinformation, anywhere informal networks outrun formal ones.