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Contents:
- SHOULD I LET MY GAY DGHTER HAVE A SLEEPOVER WH A SAME-SEX IEND?
- MOM, I’M GAY. CAN MY FRIENDS SLEEP OVER?
- HOW CHRISTIAN PARENTS SHOULD RPOND TO THEIR CHILD'S GAY INTY CRISIS
SHOULD I LET MY GAY DGHTER HAVE A SLEEPOVER WH A SAME-SEX IEND?
Q: How do you remend handlg same-sex sleepovers when your 13-year-old dghter intifi as gay? This isn’t a matter of “gay” or “straight” sleepovers. I am gog to gus that you didn’t grow up wh many exampl of how to parent gay youth; I know I certaly didn’t.
Your young teen, gay or straight, still needs to know what valu are important your fay, and the rponsibily is on you to munite, s down wh yourself and/or your partner or spoe and take a beat. ” This issue isn’t about your dghter beg gay, per se; ’s about her matury and the appropriatens of thstg her to emotnal and physil suatns that she may not be ready for. “As a psychotherapist who works wh a lot of children who are gay, I have gotten this qutn multiple tim om parents, ” said Courtney Glashow, licensed clil social worker and psychotherapist at Anchor Therapy New Jersey.
MOM, I’M GAY. CAN MY FRIENDS SLEEP OVER?
I'll let parents on a ltle secret: gay tweens and teens exist. As a queer adult, I n assure you that when I was intifyg as a female teenager, an all-girl sleepover ed both sweaty palms and anticipatn over the opportuny to get zy wh another girl sendg closeted gay kid vib. So when he told his fay he was gay, his father, Jeff Frnd, a prcipal at an arts mag middle school, asked himself, “Would I let his sister at that age have a sleepover wh a boy?
HOW CHRISTIAN PARENTS SHOULD RPOND TO THEIR CHILD'S GAY INTY CRISIS
“If they knew for sure my son was gay, I doubt they were gog to let them e over, ” he explaed.
”“I thk parents always want to make space for the stuff of childhood to happen, ” said Stacey Karpen Dohn, who works wh the fai of transgenr and genr expansive youths as senr manager of Behavral Health at Whman-Walker Health, a muny health center focg on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr re Washgton, D.