The days, gay parents are no novelty.
Contents:
- 12 POPULAR CHILDREN’S TV SHOWS THAT HAVE GAY CHARACTERS
- GROWG UP WH GAY PARENTS: WHAT IS THE BIG AL?*
- HOW TO DEAL WH HAVG GAY PARENTS
- LBIAN AND GAY PARENTG
- KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
- GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?
12 POPULAR CHILDREN’S TV SHOWS THAT HAVE GAY CHARACTERS
12 Popular Children’s TV Shows that Have Gay Characters by Michael Fot - Christian breakg news mentary. * show with gay parents *
Fortunately, TV has experienced a boom LGBTQ+-clive programmg recent years, wh beloved shows such as “The Owl Hoe” wng the Common Sense Media seal of approval, and classics such as “Arthur” and “Blue’s Clu” prentg episos featurg gay weddgs and Pri paras. A young person makg iends and havg adventur a strange land while tryg to fd their way home, protagonist Kipo’s iends number at least one nonbary character and another who rejects Kipo’s csh wh the history-makg statement, “I’m gay, ” the first time those words were said children’s televisn. Ma characters they are not, but we love to see LGBTQ+ fai and, hontly, we didn’t realize how much we were missg gay zebras until Chip and Potato, rated TV-Y, on Ltle Pony: Friendship Is MagicSotaloo is raised by a lbian uple, Aunt Holiday and Auntie KenneyMy Ltle Pony: Friendship Is Magic follows the adventur of unirns, pegasi, and poni throughout Equtria, where they solve problems and, ocsnally, battle the forc of darkns, cludg the Cutie Mark Csars, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Sotaloo.
GROWG UP WH GAY PARENTS: WHAT IS THE BIG AL?*
Havg gay parents n make life outsi of your hoe a ltle more plited than if you had straight parents. However, don't make life si your hoe any different om everyone else your age. This means that alg wh... * show with gay parents *
While there are some mor gay characters on the show, ma character Jeff is beg raised by two moms, EJ (voiced by Lea DeLaria) and Sue (voiced by Tig Notaro) one pot the seri had unnamed gay characters kissg (the b is funny, though the edy isn't their kiss).
HOW TO DEAL WH HAVG GAY PARENTS
Inclus a summary of rearch fdgs on lbian mothers, gay fathers and their children, an annotated biblgraphy of the published psychologil lerature and addnal rourc relevant to lbian and gay parentg. * show with gay parents *
"As a gay man who grew up wh no visible role mols of gay relatnships my muny or entertament ntent, I am grateful that this reprentatn is happeng on Nickeloon, moved by the difference that is surely makg the mds and hearts of children, and grateful to have been a part of this slow but important change, " Dickie told PRIDE. A 2013 Canadian study (Allen 2013), which analyzed data om a very large populatn-based sample, revealed that the children of gay and lbian upl are only about 65 percent as likely to have graduated om high school as are the children of married, oppose-sex upl.
LBIAN AND GAY PARENTG
Jot statement om advocy groups lls study a "flawed, misleadg, and scientifilly unsound paper that seeks to disparage lbian and gay parents;" thor fends his study * show with gay parents *
Three key fdgs stood out this study: children of married, oppose-sex parents have a high graduatn rate pared to the others; children of lbian fai have a very low graduatn rate pared to the others; and children the other four typ of livg arrangements (mon law marriage, gay uple, sgle mother, and sgle father) are siar to each other and fall between the extrem of married heterosexual parents and lbian upl.
The women (whose average age both groups was 29) wh gay or bisexual fathers had difficulty wh adult attachment issu three areas: (1) they were ls fortable wh closens and timacy; (2) they were ls able to tst and pend on others; and (3) they experienced more anxiety relatnships pared to the women raised by heterosexual fathers (and mothers).
KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
The study is noteworthy for several reasons: (1) his study sample was large, reprentative, and populatn-based (not a small, self-selected group); (2) Regnes studied the rpons of adult children rather than askg same-sex parents to scribe how their young pennt children are dog; and (3) he was able to draw parisons on up to 80 measur for children who had lived wh (or had) parents who fell to one of eight tegori—tact fai wh both blogil parents who were married to each other, lbian mothers, gay fathers, heterosexual sgle parents, parents who later divorced, habg parents, parents who adopted the rponnt, and other (such as a ceased parent).
4) as prevalent among children wh same-sex parents than the general populatn, after ntrollg for age, sex, ethnicy, and parent soc-enomic stat (Sulls 2015b) n one rencile the signifint fdgs wh the wily publicized studi showg no harmful effects to children who have, or have lived wh, lbian or gay parents? For example, 2005, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn (APA) issued an official brief on lbian and gay parentg, which clud this assertn: “Not a sgle study has found children of lbian and gay parents to be disadvantaged any signifint rpect relative to children of heterosexual parents” (Amerin Psychologil Associatn 2005).
GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?
The thor remend further flaws exist the vast majory of studi published before 2012 on this subject (Marks 2012) cludg the fact that they relied upon small, nonreprentative sampl that are not reprentative of children typil homosexual fai the Uned major studi, published by Gartrell and Bos (2010) and Biblarz and Stacey (2010), are often ced by gay activists and extensively the media. What is: An animated seri about an optimistic young girl bravg the dangers of a post-apolyptic Earth overn wh mutated we love : It's not often that you hear a character say "I'm gay" an animated show aimed at younger dienc, but that's exactly what happens Kipo and the Age of Wonrbeasts.