This is a site for articles related to human development for students taking Psy 2261 (Child Development) or Psy 2340 (Life-Span Development) at Columbus State Community College. Articles are relevant to physical, cognitive or psychosocial development issues in infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood. If you find a broken link, please let me know!
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Gender Fluidity in Children
This is a lengthy, but very interesting article entitled "What's So Bad About A Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?" It discusses some of the societal and parental issues around gender-fluid and gender-variant children. Why is it that our society allows girls to wear jeans and pretend they are Spider-Man, but boys are not allowed to put on a dress and pretend they are Cinderella?
Labels:
children,
early childhood,
gender,
parenting,
stereotypes
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