Through the article, "'Too much information destroys childhood innocence'", Peter Tait reveals the dangers of knowing too much at a young age and the causes of that. He gives two main causes: parents and internet/social media.

The first cause revealed by Tait was parents. Parents try to put numerous information into the brains of their children from a young age without filtering at times. They think that all the stimulations will help their children become successful later in life, but they are mistaken. They are pushing their children to jump up levels/stages rather than stepping up one by one which is not beneficial: "but as research now tells us, risks the overstimulation of some areas of children's brains at the expense of others" (Tait 5). Children could later suffer from both psychological or emotional difficulties. Parents' greed to see their children successful often blinds them from seeing the harm being done. Young children's innocence should be protected until they are ready to be exposed to the adult world.

The second cause Tait mentioned is the internet and media, where too many things are easily accessible to young children. As young children are exposed to the immorality of the adult world too quickly, devastating results can follow. They might fall into depression, struggle with sexual problems, or other immoral things of the adult world. They end up losing their innocence at such a young age, that some children are no longer like children. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Jem Finch shows loss of innocence at a young age. He matures too quickly because he was faced with the reality early. Atticus's choice and the different views on it, along with all the immoralities, destroy the innocence of Jem. He was not shielded or saw a filtered view of the world, but the raw and disgusting world at a young age. Today and in Jem's time period, there was and is always an unfiltered factor that leads to the loss of innocence.

I would like to focus my research on why young children should be protected from the immorality of the adult world. I would like to research more in depth on the causes of the loss of innocence. I want to look for and suggest some solutions to preventing more loss of innocence.