The Parent of a 10-Year-Old Boy Tells the Primary Care

The parent of a 10-year-old boy tells the primary care pediatric nurse practitioner that the child doesn't appear to have any interest in girls and spends most of his time with a couple of other boys. The parent is worried about the child's sexual identity. What will the nurse practitioner tell the parent?

A) Children at this age who prefer interactions with same-gender peers usually have a homosexual orientation.
B) Children experiment with sexuality at this age as a means of deciding later sexual orientation.
C) This attachment to other same-gender children is how the child learns to interact with others.
D) It's appropriate to encourage mixed-gender interactions in order to promote development of sexual values.