We lived with raccoons all our lives. Never saw the need to kill any of them. In fact, one night our teenage son put gloves on, dragged a ladder out and rescued three babies from the top of our open garage door(how they got there?
) while the mother was in the driveway screaming for her babies.
I don't need to open five links to see why they should be killed or relocated. If it isn't a rabid animal in the wrong place at the wrong time, learn to live with them and teach your children how to respect wildlife.