GW Author Sharon Cooper at Conference on Sexualization of Children

A nationally renowned group of childhood experts will be hosted by Point Park University, in association with A Home Within, to examine the impact of growing up in a sexualized culture on children’s health and development and what parents, professionals, and policy makers can do about it as part of the eighth annual Childhood & Society symposium, The Sexualization of Childhood, on Friday, June 13, and Saturday, June 14.

Topics to be covered include how boys’ and girls’ gender and sexual development is impacted by America’s sexualized culture; the exploitation of black adolescent girls through rap music and hip hop culture; the dramatic rise in the production and consumption of child pornography; sexual exploitation of children through internet crimes and prostitution; and the falling age of puberty in girls as a result of toxic chemical exposures.

Speakers include:

*Dr. Sharon Cooper

*Dr. Gail Dines

*Dr. Melissa Farley

*Dr.Diane Levin

*Dr. Susan Linn

*Dr.Sharna Olfman

*Dr. Sandra Steingraber

*Dr. Carolyn M. West

To register or to obtain additional information, check out the symposium's web site.