It’s Official: We Have Forsaken Our Children

Two very different news stories in the last week make this crystal clear:

Story #1: The Parkland survivor-led student walkout. Thousands of children across the nation walked out of school to protest the fact that we grownups will not ban the assault weapons that are used to murder them indiscriminately.  Why do we not ban them?  Because some adults think having assault weapons is fun. 

Story #2: The feeble backlash against Kylie Jenner, whose eponymous cosmetics line contains products with names like "Virginity," "Hot and Bothered," and "Barely Legal."  The main audience for her products is preteens and teenaged girls.  "Barely legal" is, of course, code for child pornography.  We're allowing this concept to be sold to our girls--while the media largely lauds Jenner for making nearly half a billion dollars from her morally bankrupt enterprise over the past year and a half.  

Fellow grownups, it's time to put an end to this nonsense.  Start by joining the March for Our Lives on March 24, wherever you are.  And resist giving in to cynicism about our oversexualized culture.  We can do something about it.  We are, after all, the ones who make the purchases for our daughters. 

When our children have to stand up for their freedom and their very lives while we watch, something has gone terribly wrong.  When our daughters blindly follow a morally unmoored reality TV star and we don't say "No," we have forsaken them.  Let's get back in there and fight for them.  That's our job.