GAY AND LESBIAN PARENTING
Parenting is not influenced by sexual orientation rather it depends on a parent's ability to create a nurturing home environment. In today's society we encounter many families that don't conform to the traditional family model. We are eyewitnesses to families made up of interracial, multiracial, intergenerational, as well as gay and heterosexual parents. Children, as a result of gay and lesbian parenting are just as happy and healthy as others growing up in a traditional household, if not more. There are many myths surrounding gay and lesbian parenting. One being the accusation that many homosexual parents are introducing their children to a peculiar way of life, and perhaps convincing their children to follow in their footsteps. Homosexuality cannot be "caught" nor "taught" for that matter. Neither homosexuality nor heterosexuality is contagious. For more than two decades, both the American psychological Association and the American psychiatric Association have removed homosexuality from their diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders because it is an innate characteristic (A.B.A, 1987). In a study of twenty-four homosexual fathers, and twenty-nine h
Gay and lesbian partners take into consideration all of the factors discussed here, the prejudices and the myths before deciding to adopt or conceive by other means. The similarities are strong when comparing both groups. 62 (2), 221-227. The same scenario is prevalent in every child's life, whether derived from heterosexual or homosexual parenting. eterosexual fathers, statistics show that 90% of all children are heterosexual (6). One's ability to raise children does not lie within their sexual orientation, rather in their capacity to care and nurture for them. Any sign of difference is grounds for exclusion as a child.
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