So, it's not cool to teach kids about sex and relationships in school. It's inappropriate to look at social-emotional regulation or power relationships via empathy in classes, 'cause that's too much like committing sociology.
For their part, parents don't want or even have to prepare their kids for independent relationships and sound, contextual choices; why, they just have to stalk them on social media and send them to their room if they say or so something that makes the parent uncomfortable.
Which is an approach that leads to scandalous stories like this one in the first place. Makes for good copy, but does a poor job of preventing the problem.
Parents don't need to micro-mange their children; they have to parent them, which means teach them the skills they need to succeed in healthy fashion (including where relationships are concerned) on their own.
Quit maligning the kids these days - just remember who it is they're learning from.
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