How To Talk To Young People About The Kavanaugh Story
In the age of #MeToo, experts say parents are the primary educators about consent, and the current debate offers a teachable moment.
Young people around the country are among those joining the debate over Christine Blasey Ford's accusation of sexual assault against Judge Brett Kavanaugh in 1982, when both were teenagers.
What are teens learning from all this? And how should adults be handling this conversation?
One night during the summer of 2017, a teenager named Francesca in Virginia was assaulted by a classmate: "I was pinned down and he fondled my breasts and sexually assaulted me." We're only using her first name because she's 15 years old.
Francesca says she struggled at first with coming forward, but eventually became an activist and public speaker
