Gay youth often face their set of challeng after g out about their genr preferenc.
Contents:
- IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
- PARENT SPECTS THAT CHILD MIGHT BE GAY
- HOW TO TELL IF SOMEONE IS GAY: 10 SUBTLE CLU THAT MAKE IT LIKELY
- EARLY SIGNS TO TELL YOUR CHILD IS GAY
- WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?
- HOW TO TELL IF YOUR KID IS GAY
- HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY
IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
You n’t ask a person who don’t propose that they are gay or not. Even if ’s jt a clue. But here are 10 ways to tell if someone is gay or not. * signs of early gay *
Both lbians and gay men often have a history of cross-sex-typed behavrs: ltle boys beg fatuated wh their mother's makp k; ltle girls enamored of field hockey or profsnal wrtlg.
Prehomosexual boys tend to be more attracted to solary sports such as swimmg, cyclg and tennis than they are to rougher ntact sports such as football and soccer. Children who show pronounced sex-atypil behavrs may have more of a geic loadg to their homosexualy.
The behavral patterns are feared, loathed and often spoken of directly as harbgers of adult homosexualy. It is only relatively recently, however, that velopmental scientists have nducted ntrolled studi to intify the earlit and most reliable signs of adult homosexualy.
PARENT SPECTS THAT CHILD MIGHT BE GAY
* signs of early gay *
In lookg refully at the childhoods of gay adults, rearchers are fdg an trigug set of behavral ditors that homosexuals seem to have mon. Curly enough, the age-old homophobic fears of many parents reflect some genue predictive currency.
HOW TO TELL IF SOMEONE IS GAY: 10 SUBTLE CLU THAT MAKE IT LIKELY
A Mnota school district is facg a Department of Jtice vtigatn and a private lawsu over s alleged failure to bat antigay bullyg.... * signs of early gay *
Zucker, both psychologists, published a semal paper on childhood markers of homosexualy 1995. So on the basis of some earlier, shakier rearch, along wh a good dose of mon sense, Bailey and Zucker hypothized that homosexuals would show an verted pattern of sex-typed childhood behavrs—ltle boys preferrg girls as playmat and beg fatuated wh their mother's makp k; ltle girls strangely enamored of field hockey or profsnal wrtlg—that sort of thg. Given that a small proportn of the populatn is homosexual, prospective studi require a large number of children.
EARLY SIGNS TO TELL YOUR CHILD IS GAY
Although only 12 percent of the women grew up to be genr dysphoric (the unfortable sense that your blogil sex do not match your genr), the odds of the women reportg a bisexual or homosexual orientatn were up to 23 tim higher than would occur a general sample of young women. Bailey and Zucker, who nducted a retrospective study which adults answered qutns about their past, revealed that 89 percent of randomly sampled gay men relled cross-sex-typed childhood behavrs exceedg the heterosexual median.
WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?
The thors found that “those targets who, as adults, intified themselv as homosexual were judged to be genr nonnformg as children.
HOW TO TELL IF YOUR KID IS GAY
There is also evince of a “dosage effect”: the more genr-nonnformg characteristics there are childhood, the more likely is that a homosexual or bisexual orientatn will be prent adulthood.
HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY
Not all ltle boys who like to wear drs grow up to be gay, nor do all ltle girls who spise drs bee lbians.