TY  - JOUR
T1  - CHildhood sexuality and the pediatrician
AU  - CALDERONE MS
Y1  - 1979/07/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130070021002
JO  - American Journal of Diseases of Children
SP  - 685
EP  - 686
VL  - 133
IS  - 7
N2  - Q: How does it make you feel when your little boy plays with his penis (or your little girl with her clitoris)?A: Awful!, Scared!, Angry!, Embarrassed!, I don't know!However the pediatrician (or the nurse, social worker, paramedic) follows up on this interchange once it has, hopefully, been begun—or fails to follow up—may well reflect itself some years later in how that child views him/herself as a sexual human being, in how he/she deals with others of the same or opposite sex in adolescence and adult life, in whether or how he/she chooses to marry, and ultimately in how he/she will deal with his/her own children as the sexual beings all children are, from before birth and for the rest of their days.The focus of a great deal of troubled attention and concern today, not only by pediatricians but by the whole society, is the pregnant adolescent girl.
SN  - 0002-922X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130070021002
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130070021002
ER  -