Genr Nonnformy, Childhood Rejectn, and Adult Attachment: A Study of Gay Men | SprgerLk

Contents:

• 'RETURN THE KEY': THE PARENTS WHO REJECT THEIR GAY CHILDREN
• GENR NONNFORMY, CHILDHOOD REJECTN, AND ADULT ATTACHMENT: A STUDY OF GAY MEN
• GENR NONNFORMY, CHILDHOOD REJECTN, AND ADULT ATTACHMENT: A STUDY OF GAY MEN
• REARCH PAPERCHILDHOOD EMOTNAL ABE, REJECTN SENSIVY, AND PRSN SYMPTOMS YOUNG CHE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN: TTG A MORATED MEDIATN MOL
• WHAT IT’S LIKE WHEN YOU’RE GAY AND DEALG WH REJECTN
• FAY REJECTN OF LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL CHILDREN LKED TO POOR HEALTH IN CHILDHOOD
• EXPLORG THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN GENR NONNFORMY AND MENTAL HEALTH AMONG BLACK SOUTH AIN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

'RETURN THE KEY': THE PARENTS WHO REJECT THEIR GAY CHILDREN

’”Chris, sadly, isn’t alone his story of parental fa of equalyAt the time I terviewed him, a Brazilian mother who killed her teenage son for beg gay is sentenced to 25 years prison. Celebry stori of heartbreakg parental rejectn are also November, the Amerin thor and producer Robyn Crawford released a book nfirmg she had had a romantic relatnship wh Whney Hoton – but had to abandon out of fear of the repercsns om Hoton’s by Oprah Wey if would have bothered her if her dghter was gay, Cissy Hoton said “Absolutely. Specifilly, many aspects of the velopment of homosexualy (both the male and female varieti) are not as well unrstood as they should be to make some of the claims that many people felt nfint exprsg.

GENR NONNFORMY, CHILDHOOD REJECTN, AND ADULT ATTACHMENT: A STUDY OF GAY MEN

There's a lot to discs regardg the rults of the paper (Skorska et al, 2016): The rearchers were examg the possibily that a maternal immune rponse might play a key role the velopment of a homosexual orientatn mal.

GENR NONNFORMY, CHILDHOOD REJECTN, AND ADULT ATTACHMENT: A STUDY OF GAY MEN

Effectively, then, the mother's immune system would (sometim) treat certa male protes produced by the fet as a foreign pathogen and attempt to attack , rultg out that uld clu a homosexual orientatn, but also fetal loss if the reactn was strong enough (i.

Already there is a lot to like about this hypothis on a theoretil level, as don't pos any hidn adaptive benefs for a homosexual orientatn (as such proposed benefs have not received sound empiril support historilly).

The rearchers reced approximately 130 mothers and classified them on the basis of what kd of children they had: those who had at least 1 gay son (n = 54), and those who only had heterosexual sons (n = 72).

REARCH PAPERCHILDHOOD EMOTNAL ABE, REJECTN SENSIVY, AND PRSN SYMPTOMS YOUNG CHE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN: TTG A MORATED MEDIATN MOL

The mothers were then classified further to one of five groups: those wh gay male only-children (n = 8), those wh gay male offsprg that had no olr brothers (n = 23), those wh gay male offsprg wh olr brothers (n = 23), those wh heterosexual male only-children (n = 11), and those wh heterosexual male offsprg wh siblgs (n = 61). When nsired terms of the rat of misrriag to live to births, a siar picture emerged: mothers of gay male only-children reported more misrriag to live births (M = 1.

As birth weight tends to crease over succsive pregnanci, the parisons were limed to first live-born sons only (n = 63); this left 4 gay male only-children, 7 gay mal wh no olr brothers, 14 heterosexual mal wh gay younger brothers, 10 heterosexual male only-children, and 28 heterosexual mal wh siblgs.

WHAT IT’S LIKE WHEN YOU’RE GAY AND DEALG WH REJECTN

The rults mirrored those of the fetal-loss data: mothers of gay male only-children tend to give birth to fants that weighed signifintly ls (M = 2970 grams), than all other groups (d = 1.

FAY REJECTN OF LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL CHILDREN LKED TO POOR HEALTH IN CHILDHOOD

In sum, then, mothers of gay male only-children tend to have a greater number of misrriag and give birth to signifintly lighter offsprg than mothers of other kds. While 's important to not get rried away wh this fdg given the relatively small sample size (I wouldn't put too much stock an N of 8), there is some suggtive evince here worth pursug further that somethg is atypil fetal velopment the se of gay male offsprg.

Skorska et al (2016) pos that this might have somethg to do wh some mothers showg a greater immune rponse agast male offsprg, rultg more fetal loss, the rult beg that such mothers are both ls likely to have any children at all and more likely to have gay male children particular. If mothers of gay men do not tend to have a greater rat of female-to-male offsprg, this would st some doubt on the explanatn (and, sce the only data I've heard reports that gay men tend to have more olr brothers, seems they would have noticed the sister pot by now if existed). On the other hand, if this is a more general immune reactn agast fetal bodi, regardls of their sex, we would not expect such a pattern ( might also predict that mothers takg immunosupprsants would be ls likely to have gay offsprg/misrry, but thgs are unlikely to be that simple owg to the fact that other effects would rult too).

As far as I'm aware, homosexual preferenc (not the ocsnal behavr) do not appear to be well documented nonhuman speci; the only exceptn I'm aware of is Rams.

EXPLORG THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN GENR NONNFORMY AND MENTAL HEALTH AMONG BLACK SOUTH AIN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

If is tly the se that maternal immune rpons are the drivers of homosexual velopment humans, would be very cur that siar out don't appear to obta across at least other mammalian speci. As a byproduct of that fectn, if acquired durg a particular cril velopmental wdow, the child to velop a homosexual orientatn (or is misrried by the mother). The purpose of this study was to explore the associatns between the childhood factors and attachment anxiety (the tenncy to experience anxiety regardg potential loss and rejectn close relatnships) and attachment avoidance (the tenncy to avoid vers seek out closens relatnships) gay and bisexual men.

Childhood Genr Nonnformy and Relled Perceived Parental and Peer Acceptance Thereof, Internalized Homophobia, and Psychologil Well-Beg Out Heterosexual and Gay Men om Poland. Many studi fd a higher rate of health and mental health problems among lbian, gay and bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) teens than heterosexual youth, often fgerg social rejectn as the culpr.