By C. A. Huft
Here is just an example some of the articles they can look up: "Cooking with Blood", "How to Protect Yourself from Diseases When Feeding on the Sick", or how about this one, "Safe Bloodletting and Feeding". No, your daughter won’t be kissing her poster of Robert Pattinson, instead, she will be learning the ins and outs of sanguinarians (the practice of drinking blood). You laugh, and say, “Not my kid!”, Oh really? Are you that naïve these days?
Do you know why kids are so drawn to this weird, macabre sub-culture in our day and age of endless escapism, lack of responsibility, no moral role models, entitlement, and frustration over their socially imposed limitations, and endless soccer games? Children feel alienated, when you feel alien, you look for other aliens. At an age when relationships are probably more important than anything to them, they feel alone, misunderstood and confused. They thrive, connect, and relate to characters who exude beauty, wanton, mysterious sexuality, superhuman powers, and abilities to “get back” at those who would hurt you or call you names, they becken to them from the dark abyss. They can show their friends that they may be different, but now they have found a new way to control their out-of-control surroundings, exert power, never die, never age, with a quiet confidence that if need be, you would be nothing but a late night snack if you happen to overstep your parental bounds.
