No Children's Play- Early Childhood Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassments among adults are widely covered by media, researched and treated. However little is researched, treated and spoken about when it comes to beginning of the phenomenon - at early ages and adolescence. This book examines initial age of sexual harassments among children, and how phenomenon evolves among children and adolescents as a form of an innocent "game". The book offers wide outlook on bullying and cyber bullying as well as sexual harassment and presents ways to prevent and deal with these behaviors within the educational system at an early age. Giladi exposes games, violence and exertion of physical power during gender role playing games by presenting cases from education system and examines when the line is being crossed and the games turn into sexual harassments. Dr. Giladi offers tools on how parents can become active in certain situations in their children's lives. The book addresses, for the first time, the matter of sexual harassment among LGBT community and raises important questions regarding children's education: According to which social messages are children being educated? What will happen to harassed children once they become adults and educators?