What to Do When Your Child Says: "I'm Gay" | Psychology Today

Contents:

• WHEN YOUR CHILD TELLS YOU THEY'RE GAY
• WHY MY WIFE AND I DECID TO ABORT OUR UNBORN GAY SON
• WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• WAS CARY GRANT THE FIRST ACTOR TO SAY "GAY" ONSCREEN?

WHEN YOUR CHILD TELLS YOU THEY'RE GAY

"My son jt told he thks he is gay.

WHY MY WIFE AND I DECID TO ABORT OUR UNBORN GAY SON

Bad news: He’s gay. They found the gen that e homosexualy and they tt for them now. I don’t know how I feel about tryg to raise a gay son.

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"

I know thgs are gettg better for gay people, but seems to me that beg gay is really hard the South, where we live. Gay people aren’t really accepted here like other parts of the untry yet.

Suici attempts are signifintly higher among gay teens—five tim more likely. Gay kids are five tim more likely than a heterosexual youth to end up hospalized as a rult. Studi progrsive stat like Vermont and Massachetts found that for gay and bisexual boys, rat of victimizatn were nearly five tim that of straight kids.

Gay kids are way more likely to do all of the thgs than siarly persecuted straight kids. On top of that, every studied risk factor but cigarette e, gay and bisexual boys are at a much greater risk than girls.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

What kd of life will my gay son have? I remember beg acced of beg gay school. So my wife and I talked, and we’ve cid we aren’t ready to raise a gay child.

WAS CARY GRANT THE FIRST ACTOR TO SAY "GAY" ONSCREEN?

It isn’t fair to raise a gay child our area. My wife told one of her iends that we are gog to have an abortn bee we don’t feel equipped to al wh raisg a gay child. Apparently got around to some of our gay iends om llege.

I’ve been gettg emails, texts, and IMs all day om them askg me why I’m a homophobe, and why I hate gay people.