Airport Base Station-Do g devices slow it down? Parental controls

I need to purchase a new Wi-Fi router and am looking at several but am looking at the Airport Base Station.
Most of my devices such as my Mac's all use N networking but other devices such as my Xbox 360 use g networking. When doing research on the Airport Base Station I read that when you connect G devices to the Airport Base Station it will slow down the entire network to G speed so that all your N devices really only get G speed.
Is this still an issue? Does the newer version of the Airport Base Station still do this? Has there been a firmware or hardware upgrade that solves this issue?
Also, when it comes to parental controls, does the AEBS have good parental controls? What I'm most interested in is being able to block specific websites such as Facebook so that all devices connected to the network would not be able to access Facebook. When I read up on the AEBS it appears to have some parental controls but you can't block specific websites. Is this true?
Another router I'm looking at is the Cisco Linksys E2000. A friend of mine has a E1000 and loves it. When doing research I became interested in the E2000 since it has gigabit ports.
Would g devices slow down all n devices connected to it though? What I'm wondering is if the issue with g devices is related to the AEBS or all n routers. What I like it is seems the E1000/E2000 has great parental controls for website blocking.
Thank you for your help.

The AirPorts have no parental control capability so your choices are really down to the Cisco products.
As far as whether a "g" device will slow down an "n" device on a compatible network, it's all pretty much relative. If the "g" device is an iPhone, and the iPhone is connected to the network, I see no slowdown at all on the connection to my "n" Mac.
If I'm downloading something to the iPhone, the Mac may slow just a bit...maybe 10-15% during the iPhone download...but it does not drop down to "g" level wireless at any time.

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