For gay people who have children/adopt, do you try to push the gay lifestyle on them?

Question

Okay, maybe a better way to phrase it would have been "encouraging them to be gay"

Answer 1

no, the only thing I push on my children is to be tolerant of others.

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Answer 2

I disagree with you Tybangy, I think gay parents are some of the best parents. By restricting gay adoptions based solely on the reactions of the public, you are in turn promoting the hate.

The sooner parents teach their children-gay straight or otherwise-that it's okay to be different, the sooner the teasing and stereotyping will go away.

I'd much rather see a healthy child with two moms or two dads than see a lonely child going through a hundred different foster homes or a ward of the state...c'mon.

Answer 3

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

*wipes eyes*

Ok, sorry about that. On to the answering.
Why would ANY loving parent try to force a lifestyle on their children? (By the way, homosexuality isn't a "lifestyle", so I'm just talking in general). If anything, it's bigoted people like YOU who are forcing heterosexuality on to their children by not providing an accepting home atmosphere of ALL sexual orientations. A child who is born gay (that's right, BORN) to gay parents will only have the advantage of having parents who understand and completely accept them. In a perfect world, it should be ALL parents who understand and completely accept their kids no matter what sexual orientation, but that wasn't the case for me and I know it's not the case for a lot of people.

Answer 4

You mean like 99.9% of the ads, movies, TV, radio, and billboards try to push the straight "lifestyle" on them?

I would suspect that LGBT parents teach their children about the wide variety of humna variations, and to value people as individuals. Period.

p.s. LGBT people don't have a "lifestyle." We have lives.

Answer 5

LOL...how does that work, exactly?

Let's try the old trick of replacing the word "gay" with the word "straight" in your question. Do straight people "push the straight lifestyle" on their kids?

Actually, I suppose they do. Most of us who are gay can recall feeling compelled to engage in activities in our childhood in which we had no interest, because they were supposed to be normal things for our gender.

And yet I doubt that gay men force their boys to play with dolls...lol...and I doubt that lesbians dress their girls in mandatory flannel and overalls. If anything, they're probably generally more open to allowing their kids to choose their own forms of self-expression.

Answer 6

im not gay but i see it like this.
Why would they force being gay on a child when they have had straight-ness pushed on them. Btw, its not a lifestyle.
What they might teach children is tolerance and respect for all people. (kinda like all parents should be doing)

Answer 7

What "gay lifestyle"? Going to work every day, paying taxes, grocery shopping, spending holidays with relatives, and vacationing in Florida? Because if there's more to it than that, I must have missed the memo.

Answer 8

I dont encourage my child to be anything but the best of what he feels is best for him. Gay people dont go around to children telling them to be gay...thats stupid thinking and your stupid for thinking that. I am sick and tired of stupid a** people like you coming on here thinking and calling us sick and this and that...why do you look at your own life and face that your bullsh** life sucks so much that you have to come on here to bring us down. i guess misery does love company.

Answer 9

Never. I would want them to partake in any lifestyle they wanted. I also wouldnt try to push a lifestyle for a str8 person that has kids either.

Answer 10

Well they probably want there kids to grow up and have kids of there own. I am all for equality and tolerance but, I don't think gay's should adopt. The kids would constantly be teased and harassed at school if anyone found out. They would have a hard time adjusting to heterosexual activity. Only if the kid is left for dead is it justified to do that to a human being.

Answer 11

ABSOLUTELY NOT! That is a course they must choose for themselves. I don't believe it should be shoved down there throats. I do believe that they need to learn that gays and lesbians do exist and can co-exist in all aspects of life. Labeling to me is just another form of name calling and that I can not tolerate.