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

Contents:

• WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
• HOW TO SUPPORT YOUR GAY CHILD
• MY GRANDSON IS GAY… AND I LOVE HIM VERY MUCH
• GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG
• MY GAY SON: 'THE FAY SAID WE SHOULD SEND HIM TO SYRIA FOR NVERSN THERAPY'
• JT BEE HE BREATH: LEARNG TO TLY LOVE OUR GAY SON

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

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HOW TO SUPPORT YOUR GAY CHILD

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MY GRANDSON IS GAY… AND I LOVE HIM VERY MUCH

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GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG

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If you tly believe God and want to change your sful ways, God will remove all homosexual urg om your md. But if at the end of this 60-day therapy, you still have homosexual tennci, then you didn't really believe and you didn't really want to change. When parents learn that their child is gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr, they n experience a range of emotns.

As a matter of fact, you might someday look back and fd that you are grateful for the experience of havg a gay or lbian child. Well, my study of 65 fai of gay and lbian youth for the book, Comg Out, Comg Home: Helpg Fai Adjt to a Gay or Lbian Child, I found that some parents get to the pot where they believe that the experience of havg a gay child actually ma them a better person—more open-md and sensive to the needs of others, particularly those other mory groups.

MY GAY SON: 'THE FAY SAID WE SHOULD SEND HIM TO SYRIA FOR NVERSN THERAPY'

If you jt found out your child is gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr, you may be thkg that such ias are prepostero.

The tstworthy nfidants let them vent but also rrected some of the misperceptns they absorbed om society, such as that gay people are lonely, unhappy, promiscuo, not fay-oriented, unable to have children, or sted for an unhappy life. Contact Parents, Fay, and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG).

JT BEE HE BREATH: LEARNG TO TLY LOVE OUR GAY SON

List of Helpful Books for Parents of Gay and Lbian Children. Straight Parents Gay Children: Keepg Fai Together (revised edn).

Beyond Acceptance: Parents of Lbians, and Gays Talk About Their Experienc.

Somethg to Tell You: The Road Fai Travel when a Child is Gay.