When Your Child Is Gay | Psychology Today

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• GAY MALE ONLY-CHILDREN: EVINCE FOR LOW BIRTH WEIGHT AND HIGH MATERNAL MISRRIAGE RAT
• WHEN YOUR CHILD IS GAY
• MANY PARENTS STGGLE TO ADJT AFTER LEARNG CHILD IS GAY, STUDY FDS
• GAY GEICSMOST OF BELIEVE THAT WE WERE BORN THAT WAY, BUT IS SEXUAL ORIENTATN OUR DNA? JV CHAMARY GO SEARCH OF THE GAY GENEJV CHAMARYPUBLISHED: MAY 31, 2009 AT 11:00 PMGAY GEICS
• GAY MEN AND THEIR MOTHERS: IS THERE A SPECIAL CLOSENS?
• PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE

GAY MALE ONLY-CHILDREN: EVINCE FOR LOW BIRTH WEIGHT AND HIGH MATERNAL MISRRIAGE RAT

Gay Male Only-Children: Evince for Low Birth Weight and High Maternal Misrriage Rat. Recent fdgs suggt that there may be a maternal immune rponse unrpng the etlogy of sexual orientatn of gay male only-children. We tted two predictns related to the hypothized maternal immune rponse mothers of gay male only-children: (1) elevated fetal loss among mothers who have had gay male only-children and (2) lower birth weight gay male only-children.

Mothers of at least one gay son (n = 54) and mothers of heterosexual son(s) (n = 72) self-reported their pregnancy histori, cludg the birth weights of newborns and number of fetal loss (e. Mothers of gay male only-children (n = 8) reported signifintly greater fetal loss pared wh mothers of mal wh four other sibship posns (gay wh no olr brothers, gay wh olr brothers, heterosexual only-children, heterosexual wh siblgs) (n = 118).

WHEN YOUR CHILD IS GAY

Also, firstborn gay male only-children (n = 4) had a signifintly lower birth weight than firstborn children the four other sibship posns (n = 59).

Commentary on "Gay Male Only-Children: Evince for Low Birth Weight and High Maternal Misrriage Rat" om the Prenatal Thyroid Mol Perspective. A possible send type of maternal-fetal immune teractn volved both male and female homosexualy. Quantative and theoretil analys of the relatn between olr brothers and homosexualy men.

Handns and Birth Orr Among Heterosexual Men, Gay Men, and Sao Praphet Song Northern Thailand.

MANY PARENTS STGGLE TO ADJT AFTER LEARNG CHILD IS GAY, STUDY FDS

Towards a further unrstandg of prenatal thyroid theory of homosexualy: Autoimmune thyroidis, polycystic ovary syndrome, tism and low birth weight. And the ways anti-LGBTQ laws harm the kids specifilly are a gapg hole our natnal nversatn about the impact of legislatn like Florida’s recently implemented Parental Rights Edutn law — what crics have lled the “Don’t Say Gay” law — which lims discsn of LGBTQ issu krgarten through the third the dghter of a gay man, I am vastated to image what would have been like to keep my father’s inty a secret at school. As the dghter of a gay man, I am vastated to image what would have been like to keep my father’s inty a secret at school.

GAY GEICSMOST OF BELIEVE THAT WE WERE BORN THAT WAY, BUT IS SEXUAL ORIENTATN OUR DNA? JV CHAMARY GO SEARCH OF THE GAY GENEJV CHAMARYPUBLISHED: MAY 31, 2009 AT 11:00 PMGAY GEICS

Wh classrooms and clubs, I wrote says, chose monologu and picked rearch topics nnected to my personal experience of havg a gay parent. The other issue that plays a part leavg straight children out of the discsn is that while there are many tablished advocy groups for LGBTQ children, straight children of gay parents fall to a murky middle area where rourc are srce.

GAY MEN AND THEIR MOTHERS: IS THERE A SPECIAL CLOSENS?

COLAGE (formally Children of Lbians and Gays Everywhere) is the only natnal anizatn dited to kids wh LGBTQ parents, no matter a child’s sexual orientatn or genr inty. She has recently begun wrg about growg up wh a parent who me out as gay, and her work is centered on holdg space for many thgs to be te at once.

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. 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.

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.

PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE

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).