Do gay parents have a higher chance of having gay children?

Question

If being gay is a genetic condition as most people believe, does it mean it can be passed on to their children?

Please only answer if you really know solid information and perhaps some statistical information (either from a respected source or from personal experience).

If you're a gay hater please stay out, I want a civilised unbiased discussion, thanks.

Of course this has to be between a man and a woman, either one or both are gay. They sometimes do this in the gay community to have children.

Answer 1

I assume you are asking, if a child conceived by a parent who is in a heterosexual relationship, but is actually gay, will produce a gay child? There is NO valid evidence that homosexuality is hereditary, in fact, there is no scientific consensus as to what (brain or chemical) controls sexual preference in Human Beings. And, I'd bet the farm you already knew this!

Answer 2

No, such a gene would not have survived evolution since gays have produced very few children and straights have produced many.

But consider if you will a 'gay spawning gene', which causes *one's child to be gay* under certain circumstances (which we do not know, assuming for a second that my idea turns out to be true). This gene would be in all of us, which means that a certain percentage of the human population at any given time would be gay, and any parent can spawn gay children. This is consistent with nature; the gay population has been estimated at 5% (or whatever figure happens to be true; this is the one I've heard) and there is no obvious pattern to it *cough Dick Cheney and Alan Keyes*. Excuse me.

If such a gene exists there must be a benefit to it. Perhaps early tribes benefited from a small percentage of people who had different characteristics (one of which was sexual orientation, which may not be significant) than the rest.

It's not even a theory, just a hypothesis. But I'm sure we can come up with others.

Answer 3

Believe it or not i know 2 couples that were gay and had a child. One of the couples were trying to convince each other and the rest of the world that they were not gay. The other couple just wanted to have children. Unfortunately i can't help you determain because one couple had a straight and the other one has not come out of the closet yet but you can tell the high heels are not far behind. Although I shouldn't say that because i have another friend that from a near or far you would suer and bet anything he was homosexual but he is not. He was just raised by 5 women and it rubbed off. He gets upset cause he has to be defending his sexuality all the time.

Answer 4

Ok,,, maybe I have some real life statistics that can be helpful. With Genetics you have to go back further than the parents.

I am a Lesbian and my wife's aunt is a lesbian (it is her mothers sister), also my wife's niece is a lesbian (it is her brothers daughter), and there is a couple of cousins that are lesbians (on mothers side). So you have to admit there is something genetically going on here b/c my wife was not really around her aunt or her cousins growing up. And as far as her niece goes,, her niece came out years before she did (she was very private and so you cannot say she was an influence)

As far as my history, there are alot of "suspected gays" but no one is out.

I also am the mother of 3 children that I adopted. I have two daughters and one son. My middle child (a girl) is gay. My oldest daughter is very hetro and my son is typical boy. My kids have always been taught to be true to theirselves.

Answer 5

Nobody really knows how their child will turn out, most of it is really up to the choices that child makes, how she/he thinks, and how the kid was raised. I think bisexual or lesbian/gay parents may be more open-minded to different views being that they may had to go throught hard times "coming out" with their sexual feelings and how they were treated because of it (aka equal marriage rights) and so on. But there are many straight people who are eqaully open-minded because of different things too.

Having to do with genes then maybe. If they adopt it's still a maybe because you don't know if that "gay" gene was passed to the child. Genes are tricky things though. You could have red hair and nobody in your family does, or as far back as you know, cause way way way back when somebody did have red hair too. So that gene could have been from so far back you didn't even know you still carried it. And gay/lesbian/bisexual parents have straight children all the time, so you may be a "gay" gene carrier but not be gay yourself. Add in bisexual genes to the mix and it gets really complex.

Oh and lots of lesbian couples have children with the help of science (test tube kids) just like other woman/man couples that are having trouble making a baby the old fashion way go to science for help. I like the idea of adoption better because of the tons of children waiting for loving families.

Answer 6

Gay children are born not made. Thus Gay children come from hetero parents. Although there have been some studies showing homophobes having a 300% higher chance of having gay offspring. Reason as yet unknown. UCLA
Tammi Dee

Answer 7

I once did a case study about gay couples rearing children...but they were not genetically linked. The study only surveyed couples that had adopted children. I don't know if this is suitable to your question, but the study found that in most instances the children grew up to be heterosexual. I based most of my research on personal interviews and a couple of actual court case...though I don't remember them all specifically, once case was out of Licking County in Ohio. I hope that I was of some sort of help.

Answer 8

As far as I've read and seen, gay parents have children whom are more open and understanding about their own sexuality, but I don't think it makes them gay. This was a strong argument against gays having children or even adopting. And I think you may be misunderstanding. Being gay isn't a gene, its something you are born with but not like hair color or facial structure. Its more like right handed or left handed, or ambidextrous!!
And if people start yelling about that comment, left handed people were burnt at the stake once upon a time, just like gays.

Answer 9

As far as I know, gay parents can have both gay and straight children. The gay parents I know mostly have straight children, but there are some gay kids as well. I don't have any statistical information, but that's just what I've noticed,

Answer 10

My great grandmother, my grandfather's mother, was a lesbian. I was born looking exactly like her, and I have identified as a lesbian since childhood. I strongly feel that there is a genetic component - I never made a choice. So, maybe a gay parent would have a child predisposed to being gay, maybe not. It comes up every once in a while in my family.