If you safeguard your child from gay influence right from the beginning, will it prevent him from acquirin it?

Question

They say that being gay is sometimes acquired, so can people prevent their children from acquiring it?
If those with a predisposition to be gay from birth are not exposed to gay influences, can it be prevented from surfacing?

Answer 1

I'm not sure if homosexuality is a learned behavior or your a born with it. I'm thinking thta you are born with it because aren't heterosexual people born straight? I've heard many gay people on talk shows say that they knew they were different at a very young age. So it sounds like they may be born with it. Is it due to hormones or behavior or upbringing and treatment from parents? I'm not sure. But I understand that homosexuality is more than just the desire to have sex with the same gender. You are attracted to the same sex for companionship, common interests, looks, etc. My son is 12 and he thinks there are 2 boys in his grade that are gay. One wears lipstick to school every day and wears tight clothes. The other boy seems more girlie. My son knows not to bully them or make fun of them. I teach him that. But it's not fair that my son has this distraction in school. And I don't understand how a young child can figure out that they are gay when at a young age they aren't sexually developed anyways. There is NO way a parent can keep their child away from gay influence today. Gays are everywhere! "Will and Grace", Rosie O'Donnell, singers, actors, students, magazines, commercials, etc. Children see it everywhere. And if homosexuality is inborn, you will be gay even if you are never exposed to it.

But I don't think young children and teens know about what gay sex does to their bodies. Anal sex will harmful and unhealthy.

Answer 2

I was raised in an household where I was never exposed to any type of gay material. I never even met a gay person until I was in my mid 20's. I am Gay. I look back and realize I was born this way. Being gay doesn't rub of off someone, you can't catch it from someone like a cold. It's not acquired, it just is. If someone is predisposed to being gay, it will eventually surface.

Answer 3

Wow, again I am amazed by the sheer audacity of some people to come here and slag, now it's you. Listen, you can no more acquire homosexuality than you can heterosexuality. As J J pointed out so brilliantly, your argument collapses under the simplest of examples. Do us all a favour, try reading a book (if you can read, because clearly you can't spell), or maybe actually go out and meet gay people. You may discover some interesting truths that you've been missing.

Answer 4

Would you love your child any less if he or she grew up to be gay? Most gay teens grew up without any gay influence, and most kids growing up with gay influence, even with same-sex parents, turn out straight. While we can't know for sure, it's a generally accepted fact based on the way we all feel that it's just something inborn, like being left-handed (which they used to punish people for, by the way).
Your children will be who they will be, and you need to love them no matter what.

Answer 5

No. I was raised in a town where gay still meant happy. There were no gay people that I knew of growing up. As for trans people, they didn't exist either in the town I grew up in. I still turned out bi and trans. I just started growing up and as I did I started to develop sexual desires I noticed they were towards both sexes and I also realized that I did not identify as male. Even isolated from the community people still have the desires they have. The only thing that happens is that people sometimes push those desires to the side in order to fit in.

Answer 6

The only way you can prevent your child from gay influence is illegal because you'd have to keep the kid cloistered from the world and you can't without facing criminal charges. The only other option you have to safeguard your child from gay influence is to not have any in the first place.

Answer 7

How would you go about doing that? What constitutes gay influence anyway?

On the other hand, there is a long history of punishing, shaming, and attacking homosexuals in North America to try to prevent it, unsuccessfully, I might add, on a society-wide level, but devastating to individuals.

Answer 8

I'm not sure... But one thing's for sure, if it involves oppressive measures physically or emotionally, it's bound to backfire in your relationship with the kid.

Now for the story part.... (yawn...)

I had my first crush at 5 (same gender), I thought it was okay until I learned that same-sex relationships are abnormal, inferior and disgusting, I was 8 when I got the gist of what society thinks of the way I love... So I tried to suppress it, buried myself in sports, academics and all other activities I can find. Before long, I was excelling in so many fields, getting awards from every aspect.... And really on top of my little world... yet so alone... I only watch the girls I was attracted to from a distance... I thought they deserve someone better... Anybody from the opposite gender, just not me... 11 years of suppression, deliverance, and intense pleading and bargaining with God did not "cure" me... Because after all, there was really nothing to cure.

Believe me, when your kid finds out that he/she is gay, he will already get more than enough turmoil from deep within him that you don't need to add to it anymore. More than anything, people who are born gay and who discover that they are gay, want to rid themselves of the "disease". Just support your kid and let him/her live a full life... We all deserve a fair chance.

Answer 9

First of all, how in the heck do you intend on safegaurding your kids from gays? They're not in the closet anymore and unless you're planning on keeping your kid locked up in the house, you won't be able to.

With that being said, if you think it's something that's just going to rub off, maybe you should also worry about yourself. Wouldn't want you catching Homoitis and all.

Answer 10

Being gay is not an infectous disease that your children can catch. You cannot have that kind of control over another person's life and if you try you will certainly affect that life in a negative way. You need to control your homophobia before you pass it along to your children. Bigotry is passed from parent to child.