books.google.com - Only a generation or two ago, childhood in the United States was understood to be a unique and vulnerable stage of development; a time for play and protection from adult preoccupations and responsibilities. In recent decades however, we appear to have jettisoned these norms, and the lines that separate...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_sexualization_of_childhood.html?id=XfcrGojmbh0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe sexualization of childhood