Boys wh big brothers more likely to be gay | Daily Mail Onle

Contents:

• GAY UPLE WHO WERE 'FATHER' & 'SON' MARRY
• BOYS WH BIG BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY
• BOYS WH BIG BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY
• MY GAY STEPDAD WAS ALL THE FATHER I NEED

GAY UPLE WHO WERE 'FATHER' & 'SON' MARRY

Boys wh olr brothers are more likely to be homosexual than those wh sisters, younger brothers or no siblgs at all, acrdg to rearch.

BOYS WH BIG BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY

Gay men had more olr brothers, on average, than straight men, a study has found. For every olr brother a man has, the chanc of him beg gay creas by 33 per cent.

BOYS WH BIG BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY

For s, amics have argued over nature vers nurture - whether dividuals are born gay, or bee gay bee of where and how they grow up. He studied the fay backgrounds of 302 gay men and the same number of straight men. The gay men, had, on average, 1.

There was virtually no difference numbers of other siblgs - suggtg there is no tth the theory that a lone boy wh lots of sisters is more likely to grow up gay. Dr Blanchard, of the Centre of Addictn and Mental Health Toronto, said he ially thought the ia that beg gay was more likely if a man had olr brothers seemed 'absurd, egreg psdoscience'. 5 olr brothers were twice as likely to be gay as those wh no olr brothers.

MY GAY STEPDAD WAS ALL THE FATHER I NEED

His rearch was backed up by John Manng at the Universy of Central Lanshire Prton, who said: 'It's one of the few reliable rrelat of homosexualy that I know of. But not all the experts believe Dr Blanchard's theory bee there is no evince that Roman Catholics and Mormons, who tend to have large fai, produce more gay men. Social scientists also pot out that the theory would mean the trend for smaller fai the Wtern world would mean fewer gay men, too, and that don't seem to be te eher.