Billie Eilish is right. Porn is inflicting serious harm on America's children.

Aside from the novelty of a celebrity acknowledging the pitfalls of pornography consumption, people were horrified to hear that Eilish was exposed to sexually explicit acts online when she was only 11 years old.

According to a study by the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, 93% of boys and 62% of girls are exposed to pornography before age 18.

It will be years until we know how many children are being exposed to pornography, according to Dawn Hawkins, CEO of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. Studies on this age group are unethical, she told me, which restricts the availability of data for researchers.

So, it will be a couple more years until we’re able to really understand the scope of how many of our younger children are being exposed.

Anecdotally, we know that children are introduced to mature content at startlingly young ages.

She told me that she has talked with countless parents who have called her weeping, distraught to discover that their children are struggling with pornography.

Young children who view pornography frequently disengage from their family and start to isolate more, Hawkins said, noting that these children often become withdrawn, sullen or depressed. .

If these are consequences of adults' pornography consumption, the consequences of viewing pornography are likely worse for children whose understanding of relationships and sex is still being shaped. .

Parents have told Reber that their children were first exposed to pornography by predators on social media sites, and others first viewed porn at a friend’s house.

But parents are the first line of defense for their children against explicit content that could traumatize them, damage their psychological well-being and misshape the way they view themselves, one another and sex.