I think that the best long-term investment in challenging this problem is absolutely in early childhood education. To that end, we need to really be thinking about teaching social justice in the classroom, thinking about how we talk about empathy, and thinking about how we talk to children about performing gender. One of the issues we have is that the ways in which femininity and masculinity are manifested in children tend to lead boys to strip themselves of empathy. A lot of masculinity involves shedding qualities that we think of as feminine.
So empathy, especially cross-gender empathy, is often dissuaded in boys, but we need to be starting at very, very early steps to think about what we're teaching children in terms of their own form of power and their own autonomy. That should lead into the question of consent. How do we talk about consent? How do we talk about sexual relationships, healthy relationships? All of that has to happen, honestly, before children are nine or 10, because what we're seeing is that the interactions they're having online are jarring to adults but part of the fabric of their lives. We need to be able to provide age-appropriate lessons in media literacy, digital citizenship, and compassion, because these technologies really do create unprecedented social interactions, and we are not equipping children to deal with them properly.