Would a parent be right to restrict their childs content under this circumstance?

The following is NOT based on personal experience.It is strictly a hypothetical situation.Suppose a parent has a child-I suppose male or female doesnt matter-who is around 13-14 yrs.old.The child is unusually bright and is extremely interested in politics and world affairs,to the point where they stay informed of such things to a far greater degree than most kids their age would.Now suppose that this child found the current state of affairs upsetting and it was causing the child to have undue stress and anxiety.Under these circumstances,would it be appropriate for the parent to forbid the child from reading or watching any media that was politically oriented;in effect "banning"the child from such topics?

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Yulianna · 22-25, F

no, totally inappropriate... forbidding the child to access information will not reduce but increase anxiety, as the fertile intelligence will intuit that things may be even more problematic than they are.

better by far for the parents to educate themselves to the point where they can discuss world events honestly and openly with child, address anxieties, draw lessons from history, help child to understand and analyse the real world.

cut the child off from the real world and you leave it open to conspiracy theories, fake news and the purveyors of such dangerous nonsense.

that would be tantamount to child abuse.

i am personally eternally grateful to my parents for opening up the real world to me at an early age... and me to it.