1. Gender Identity and Role Awareness in Infancy and Early Childhood
The sexual development takes place in the life of the children when they are infants and toddlers. ... The near foundation of emotional and physical attachment that establishes itself between parents and infants acts as the early foundation of mature forms of initiated physical love and intimacy, which the children experience when they are mature. ... The children would start understanding their gender of male or female at the age of 2 or 3. ... At this early stage, the child will start to associate with certain behaviors referred to as gender roles of being male or female (Zosuls, et al 2011)...
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