Djibouti Egypt Eq. It is better that children receive information in a guided classroom situation than pick it up at random. We forget perhaps that children can frighten and intimidate each other, we forget the power of peer pressure. In my own opinion the role of the publisher is defined by the publisher or publishers. The survival of the publisher depends on the market.
Publishers produce textbooks and supplementary readers for that market.
What textbooks contain, and whether supplementary readers are prescribed, depends on the curriculum and the examinations. You can be sure that if a ministry of education puts child abuse on its curriculum, the market would be full of books about the subject. In many countries, even family life education is a taboo subject, let alone sexual abuse. The fact that children may already know or experience what they are supposed not to know or experience until they are adults, seems to be immaterial. Unfortunately, the novelettes failed to be approved on the basis that they contained references to sex.