--- title: How Young Adult Novels Can Teach Kids About Consent description: Learning consent from young adult novels, when cultural food appropriation goes wrong and more canonical: https://time.com/4283406/young-adult-books-teach-kids-consent/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-06T16:01:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:09.768Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Young Adult Novels Can Teach Kids About Consent og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4283406/young-adult-books-teach-kids-consent/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Young Adult Novels Can Teach Kids About Consent twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Young Adult Novels Can Teach Kids About Consent by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 6, 2016 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 6, 2016 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Young adult novels can help your kid learn to say no.**](http://www.npr.org/2016/04/01/472584700/when-it-comes-to-talking-sex-young-adult-books-can-be-a-parents-best-friend) By Neda Ulaby at NPR **2\.** [**When is cultural appropriation of food racist?**](http://civileats.com/2016/03/31/beyond-talk-the-search-for-real-solutions-in-the-conversation-about-food-and-cultural-appropriation/) By Cathy Erway in Civil Eats **3\.** [**This portable on-demand pill production system could save lives and money.**](http://news.mit.edu/2016/portable-pharmacy-on-demand-0331) By Anne Trafton in MIT News **4\.** [**There’s nothing wrong with introverts.**](http://daily.jstor.org/in-defense-of-introverted-children/) By Joanna Pocock in JSTOR Daily **5\.** [**How did bedbugs make a comeback? Air travel and evolution.**](http://www.vox.com/2015/4/27/8502491/bed-bugs-kill-increase) By Brad Plumer in Vox  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4283406/young-adult-books-teach-kids-consent/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4283406/young-adult-books-teach-kids-consent/"},"headline":"How Young Adult Novels Can Teach Kids About Consent","datePublished":"2016-04-06T16:01:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:09.768Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4283406/young-adult-books-teach-kids-consent/","keywords":["Innovation","medicine","Food","Racism"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4283406/young-adult-books-teach-kids-consent/","name":"How Young Adult Novels Can Teach Kids About Consent"}}]}] ```