Gay Men and Their Mothers: Is There a Special Closens? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• 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).

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.

WHEN YOUR CHILD IS GAY

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.

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.

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

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. 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.

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

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.

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

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). 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).

As predicted, the average number of fetal loss were higher the first group (mothers of gay male only-children; M = 1. 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.

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. 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.

PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE

The first qutn that to md is why this effect seemed to be specific to gay male only-children, rather than gay male children wh siblgs? 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. In other words, mothers wh gay male offsprg should be expected to have proportnately more female children owg to a greater male fetal loss.

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). Intil male tws—those who share both their geics and maternal fetal environment—only show a nrdance rate of homosexualy of approximately 30%.