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Combatting stereotypes: How to talk to your children

  • Written by Marjorie Rhodes, Associate Professor of Psychology, New York University
imageChildren around the world are susceptible to stereotypes.World Bank Photo Collection, CC BY-NC-ND

How can modern parents raise the next generation to be free from corrosive gender and racial stereotypes? By the time children start elementary school, gender and race shape their lives in many ways that parents might want to prevent. As early as first...

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