Esther McCarthy: Have you talked to your sons about consent and gender violence?

You worry more about the girls? Well, maybe it’s time we start worrying about the boys

Esther McCarthy says we need to find out about parental controls on our children's phones and talk to them. Picture: Emily Quinn

“You're lucky you don’t have daughters.”

I hear that a lot, and with rapid frequency as my boys got older and the eldest son puttered towards teenagery.