The worries we have as parents are tightly tethered to childhood experiences that shook us. Growing up in the latchkey days of the 1980s and ’90s, without cellphones or supervision, it was the wild-wild west of adolescence. We explored our neighborhoods and navigated our development with nothing but a bicycle and a best friend.

In some ways, it was an incredibly free way to live. But when you compound those freedoms with pop culture influences that objectified girls and women, our childhood was fraught with indiscretions. No one talked about it, much less prepared us for it. Our favorite movies implied sexual assault was supposed to be funny. I’m looking at you, “Revenge of the Nerds,” “Sixteen Candles” and “The Breakfast Club.” Meanwhile, teen beauty magazines and product marketing reinf

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