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RE: Do Parents Stereotype Their Children's Gender?
Yup! Here's a quote from the literature:
Children choose same-sex playmates spontaneously in situations in which they are not under pressure from adults to do so. In modem co-educational schools, segregation is more marked in situations that have not been structured by adults than in those that have (e.g., Eisenhart & Holland, 1983).[9]
Thanks for reading and sharing! )
Good to see this article is now doing very well! Glad I caught it early :-)
The flip side of this auto-segregation - it's somewhat like a chemical precipitation - is that those kids who wish to "cross over" are thought of as outsiders. They are not gay or trans; they seem to just enjoy a different energy and are happy to be in both groups. Somehow, this is verboten.
This does not bode well for adults.
Very true.