Apparently you have ample proof from experience that you're not going to stop world evil by debating your in-laws into submission, so it's okay to choose not to try.

All of us assign different values to things, and not all of those values are going to line up with others'.

I think we'd all hate to be the one who gets declared undateable by one's entire grad-school population based on a couple of told and retold stories.

And if you're a parent who thinks you're okay because your kid doesn't have a phone or iPod yet, and/or you've used all the parent controls to filter out explicit material, you're not okay. The filters are tissue paper and your kid without a phone is on a school bus or in a locker room or at a public park with phone-equipped kids every day. And they're like all kids in exploring - by whatever means available to them - exactly what their parents are treating as too embarrassing or taboo to talk about.

There is a difference between your parents' not reporting to you everything they do and keeping secrets from you.

I'm not a big fan of the white lie.

Being highly invested and preoccupied by an emotionally consuming mission tends to steal resources from other aspects of your emotional life.