Do children raised by homosexual parents also become homosexual?

[Anonymous]

How does the rise of homosexuality in the media affect children? Is the environmental factor enough to make children more prone to become homosexual when they're exposed to it? I'm interested in knowing.

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

Well if it were to work that way then it should work the other way right? If kids are raised by heterosexual parents then they also become heterosexual. Well all except in my case I guess because my parents were both straight and were together over 40 years but I ended up not straight.

Maybe it has nothing to do with what the parents are and maybe it's just the way you were born.

[Agagagagaga]

The overwhelming majority of heterosexual parents produce heterosexual children. That’s what keeps the species going. There are several studies that examined the causal links between abuse and homosexuality.

[Asker]

No, it shouldn't work the other way because heterosexual people can have children. Homosexuels cannot. Heterosexual people keep the species going.

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

Homosexual parents can also reproduce. We use surrogates and donations to sperm banks.. my wife and I have two kids thanks to a donor.

I was never abused as a child. An overwhelming majority are hetero because homosexuality isn't common in general.

[Asker]

It wasn't a child that you and your wife conceived. It was from a donor father. Homosexual people don't have children.

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

My wife conceived them. She is gay. Therefore homosexual people can have kids. It's easy

[thatshydork]

You do understand that homosexuals can still have sex with the opposite gender and reproduce but they’re not attracted to that gender, right? Attraction doesn’t have to happen for babies to be made. Even if the baby isn’t made from sex, there’s fertility treatments that allow the baby to be made.

[Asker]

Well, I suppose that there's an element of both nature and nurture. My question is if it is possible to turn a kid gay simply by environmental factors alone.

[Asker]

@thatshydork You're right but it's like saying if you could only have kids if you were gay when you're straight, would you be willing to have sex with a guy to have kids? So saying that isn't useful. I'm strictly talking about couples who are attracted to one another naturally. Gay couples can't have sex and reproduce because they are of the same gender. No issue with this, except the possible moral issues if they were to adopt childeren or choose to be impregnated by a donor. If we find out that there's no difference between gay couple raising a child and heterosexual people doing the same, then I see no issue with it. However there just aren't data on it and so my objection on the matter is allowing gay couples to raise children without enough data to support whether or not it is a good idea for the child psychologically speaking.

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

Even if it were true that we could somehow make them gay (which we can't), there's nothing wrong with being gay in the first place.

[Asker]

I'm not saying there's something wrong with being gay, but there is something wrong with killing your child's offspring. If you had a gay boy, that child can only adapt children and can't pass his offspring. I see that as a moral issue not being gay, but for gay couple to have the right for children. In the animal kingdom, homosexuality is non-reproductive and so the idea of gay couple raising kids is exclusive to humans and is not natural. I hope you get my point. I don't have a problem with homosexual people, I just see a moral issue that is unknown at best with them raising children.

[Asker]

*adopt

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

There is nothing wrong morally either with being gay or for us raising kids. We aren't animals so stop trying to compare us to them, but if you must, at least look into research where their have been known cases of gay penguins adopting chicks of their own.

[Asker]

The reason I'm referring to animals is because we share a lot of traits that help us survive and reproduce with them, because that is the ultimate goal of every species that has ever lived big and small. And life evolved to keep those traits that help with that goal. There are traits that are exclusive to us humans that help with our comfort, but not necessarily our survival which can have a negative impact.
Again, I have no issue with being gay, my issue is with them trying to imitate heterosexuals by trying to force themselves into raising kids and exaggerate their appearance in the media. My issue is with their behavior not them.
Okay, do you mind linking anything related to that penguin research you mentioned?

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

sites.tufts.edu/.../

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

Not truly a study but it does cover a lot of the known and studied examples of gay and lesbian couples in captivity who raise chicks. It happens with all kinds of birds like swans, vultures, flamingos, and albatross to name a few where it has been observed by either zookeepers or in the wild.

[TheorionMage]

Certainly, I'm not discounting evolutionary variation, BUT... not all evolution leads to a successful propagation to future generations. The evolutionary 'norm' is to perpetuate the hereditary genetics... this does NOT place emphasis on what sensory stimuli evoke immediate neurological 'reward' chemistry which developed through early formative life experiences. "First cuts are the deepest" and speaking from firsthand experience and observation, some of my earliest pre-teen nude experiences involving tactile, auditory and visual sensations with a satin bed comforter instilled a lifelong fetish predilection at the deepest neurological level. MUCH of early life experience rudimentarily shapes what "pushes your pleasure center buttons"~ Insightful contextual observations and witness to OTHER'S reactions TO YOUR responses determine whether complicit pleasure or guilt-ridden shame becomes attached to One's own recollections~

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

Sure, I'll buy that for things like fetishes but not sexual attraction. As I stated, my parents were straight, both my brothers are straight, TV in the 80s and 90s BARELY touched on same sex relationships. So where would I have picked it up from? Also, if that's true then you are implying that straight people are only that way because of environmental influences and if given a choice they could still be gay.

[thatshydork]

No. It’s the same thing as asking if a straight couple has an effect on if their kids are gay. No, absolutely not.

[Asker]

But how did you know that their kids are gay before having them? And how can you be sure of that?

[thatshydork]

You can’t I don’t know why you think I said that you could. All I said was that the parents sexuality has no effect on the kids sexuality.

[Asker]

ThenI just didn't get what you meant by "if a straight couple has an effect on if their kids are gay."

[TheorionMage]

In a loving, supportive home there is pragmatic 'truth' to the maxim: "monkey see... monkey do" in that juveniles learn FIRST by observation of care giver's behaviors and ONLY THEN measure their firsthand experiences, against cultural, religious & biological 'norms'.

STILL... the matter SHOULD revert to personal bodily sovereignty!

[Asker]

Meaning?

[Soteris]

... Maybe? We dont know, but either way its still a small percent who becomes homosexuals regardless of who the parents are. We are talking about tiny differences if there are any at all.

[Asker]

Don't you think about the possible psychological influence this could have on children who think that they aren't sure about their sexual orientation? I'm curious 'cause if there's an influence in any way, then it is an issue. Children take a lot of influence by their environment and this transgender thing if it becomes more okay in the media, it could lead young children to make bad choices when they're not even yet aware. You surely care what your child's sexual orientation is going to be right?

[Soteris]

Nope, dont think that is much of a factor. If anything the difference is just making it more socially acceptable but that only makes the difference between gays and gays who pretends to be straight because they believe that is "proper" and therefore lives miserable lives.

I have not seen any evidence that the environment has such a straight forward influence on children that gay parents directly leads to gay kids. If there are environmental factors they are definitely much more complicated. If it was simple then the whole religious gay conversion therapies might actually work which they obviously do not.

[FunkyMonkee]

Not that I know of. It's not a learned thing, it's a preference that you're born with.

[Asker]

I'm not entirely sure why people seem to not care about this...

[Anonymous]

Yes. They tend to become gay as well. I’ve known far too many people who had a gay parent who ended up raising them with their gay lover, and surprise surprise, the kid ended up also being gay!

[Asker]

If true, do you not think that this is a moral issue?

[gothbxtch]

no, obviously not? no one “becomes” any sexuality

[msc545]

No. Homosexuality is not environmentally mediated - it is genetic. You do not "become" homosexual; you are born that way.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Probably so. Homosexuals are sexual deviants so expect the kids to be molested or rape by them in secret.

[Astarlessnightsky]

No, and media has also no effect.

[Anonymous]

Unknown, and I doubt anyone cares to “study” it

[Asker]

Why not? I mean if it does, then it's surely immoral since homosexual people tend to you know not have kids... So it is a big deal. I think it is essential to conduct studies on this issue before allowing gay people to adopt children because there are no studies on how effectively those parents (of the same sex) can raise a child nor about the psychological effects it can have on the child so it doesn't make sense to me to allow it immediately without second thought about the possible moral implications.

[Opinion Owner]

There’s no way to study it without being overly invasive into peoples private lives, and there’s no way to accurately measure it anyway.

[Asker]

Pretty sure there's a way to measure how gay the children will turn out. This doesn't seem to be the most invase study to me considering we have studies on things like d**k size for f*** sake. I'm sure we can find ways to do those. This thing doesn't add up it seems to me like the US is quick to go in favor of homosexuels raising children to gain their approval.

[Opinion Owner]

Same-sex couples have been adopting children in states where it’s allowed for quite some time now. Yeah there are bogus studies in everything, which is why I pay little attention to them or bogus stats. I don’t know what the fear is, as it doesn’t matter what sexual orientation a child takes on as an adult. Look at how many kids of heterosexual couples turn out to be non-heterosexual kids.

[Anonymous]

yes indeed

[Asker]

I mean if it does, then it's surely immoral since homosexual people tend to you know not have kids... So it is a big deal. I think it is essential to conduct studies on this issue before allowing gay people to adopt children because there are no studies on how effectively those parents (of the same sex) can raise a child nor about the psychological effects it can have on the child so it doesn't make sense to me to allow it immediately without second thought about the possible moral implications.