Krupat: How do children pick their friends? For instance, do little boys prefer to play with other boys or does that matter to them?

Rubin: Children's friendships tend to be highly sex-segregated--boys play with boys and girls play with girls. This tends to be the case even in nursery schools that try to be nonsexist and even among kids whose parents are quite liberated with respect to their attitudes about sex roles.

(Psychology Is Social, pg. 159)

Affective Cognitive Sensorimotor
Spiritual Self I enjoy my roles as a man (opening doors etc.). A man should be the head of the household and be its leader. These roles shouldn't be mixed. Homosexuality is an abomination unto God. I draw back from men that portray feminine attributes. I like feminine women and masculine men. I assume that nonsexist institutions will help to produce mixed up kids with no strong role models.
Reflective Self Because of the femininity now displayed in many men of today, I hesitate in mixing male/female roles even more so. I will not raise my child in that way. B.F Skinner and other psychologists have proven the effect our surroundings has on individuals. This can be both positive and negative. I believe that an environment will affect what a child will be later. Man is a product of his environment as well as of his own free will.
Automatic Self Children when they grow up need the proper role models. God is pleased when I take a stand for the standards that He has set up for our good. I am resentful of the non sexist attitudes displayed in our society. This is especially true of womens clothing and the attempt to change the Bibles reference to God as a "it." Boys ought to be boys and girls ought to be girls, without the confusion of role indentity in our modern society.

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