Marriage and Family

In today’s society, kids are growing up at younger ages. The children of today are being exposed to more sex, violence, and brutality than the past generation of children. Toys at toy stores, images on TV, and movies they watch are contributing to the children’s prompted maturity.
The toy’s children play with is probably the biggest factor of stereotyping gender roles. The reason for this is because when a child is given an action figure or a doll, the only limits a child has on the toy is how much of an imagination the he or she has. In most toy stores there’s a boys section and a girls section. The boys section consists of fully equipped action figures and costumes with plastic weapons. Dark colors are used on the boxes signifying that it is a male toy. The girls ...