Is Your Child Gay? - Scientific Amerin

Contents:

• WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?
• IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND
• IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
• EARLY SIGNS TO TELL YOUR CHILD IS GAY

WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?

When do gay kids start “actg gay”? A Mnota school district is facg a Department of Jtice vtigatn and a private lawsu over s alleged failure to bat antigay bullyg.

When do gay children start exhibg telltale signs? A hefty pile of rearch shows that boys as young as 3 years old who break om tradnal genr rol have a high likelihood of beg gay adults. ) The relatnship isn’t one-to-one, however, and ’s certaly not the se that all boys who love Barbie dolls will later intify as gay.

IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND

The rrelatn is much weaker the other directn: A disproportnate number of boys who don’t nform to genr stereotyp turn out to be gay men, but lots of gay men played wh G. Thirty of them beme gay or bisexual adults while jt one child om a 34-member genr-nformg ntrol group turned out to be gay. The subjects who strayed the most om nventnally boyish behavr were the most likely to be gay.

There is no magil age at which children adopt stereotypilly gay behavr and keep to adulthood.

IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

Some mothers tell psychologists that they sensed their ltle boy was gay durg fancy.

EARLY SIGNS TO TELL YOUR CHILD IS GAY

Some rearchers thk genr nonnformg children e their toys to rehearse for a gay adulthood. Gay 3-year-old boys n’t verbalize their sire to be wh a man when they grow up—although many such children exhib cshlike behavr toward adult men—but they may be tryg to learn the behavr that will later attract a male partner. It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch.