Me and several co-workers were just debating about this issue. If a boy is raised by his mother, in a single parent home, and his father is not in his life at all, do you think he stands a greater chance of being gay? In some ways, I can see how this could be true because most women tend to be over-protective of their children. Most women are gentle and some of them tend to treat their sons like one of the girls. Especially when there is no other man in their son’s life. Not every kid has an uncle or a cousin that they can be around.
What is your opinion on this matter?
2007-09-26 09:48:18 · 9 answers · asked by Hoping he will bless me with #1 4 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
My brother and I were raised on a single parent home, and my brother does have feminine qualities about himself. My father was around for about 5 to 6 years of my brother's life and 11 to 12 years of mine. I am 30 and my brother is almost 23. While I can't blame my mother for the way he acts, I just feel like with him being around women (me, my mother, my grandmother and my mother's 5 sisters) he had no other choice but to act like a woman. Besides that, my mom always treated him like a pet. He couldn't get hurt, he couldn't get dirty, etc.
2007-09-26 09:51:15 · update #1
I am definitely not saying this is true in all cases, but in some cases I could see this being true because I have seen the situation first hand.
2007-09-26 09:51:46 · update #2
Sexual tendancies aside, it is true that boys without male influence end up becoming troubled adults.
2007-09-26 09:52:18 · answer #1 · answered by amosunknown 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
If the mom does her job, a child raised in a single family household can be just as well (if not more well) adjusted as a child living in a two parent household. My father passed away when I was 6 and I came out better than alot of my friends.
That being said, being gay is a genetic trait, so it cannot be taught. The boy may be more feminine or sensitive, but neither of those characteristics make him gay.
2007-09-26 09:58:00 · answer #2 · answered by sami_sam 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well I happen to think that homosexuality isn't an acquired thing. All of my gay friends tell me they were born that way and just came to realize it later on in life. My boyfriend was raised by a single mom, and he is very much a man. I am also a single mom and my son, although not a bully, or a tough guy, does not display homosexual tendencies. Quite the opposite actually.
2007-09-26 09:59:17 · answer #3 · answered by Scubachick76 1 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Having feminine characteristics and being gay are two VERY different things. Interesting that you didn't ask this about women raised by their dads: I was raised by my father, and I'm a straight woman.
No, there is absolutely NO data to back up that theory. No matter how much a mom coddles a boy or how much his father pushes him into football, he'll still be whatever sexual orientation he is born with.
2007-09-26 10:02:21 · answer #4 · answered by Magaroni 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
People who are gay are not conditioned to be gay. It is the way they are born. It is not a choice, they can't change it, they are who they are. Everybody seems to have a different view on this subject. This is my opinion.
2007-09-26 10:04:01 · answer #5 · answered by Missy 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
uummmmm i dont think so i suppose its a chance but i doubt it becuase kids raised by gay parents dont grow up to be gay its probaly the same chance as any other kid
2007-09-26 10:15:42 · answer #6 · answered by happy people 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
nope its a personal choice my brother was raised by my mom only and is very straight
2007-09-26 10:08:36 · answer #7 · answered by kleighs mommy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't turn out gay, you're born that way...
2007-09-26 09:56:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋
No. Being gay is something you're born with.
2007-09-26 09:52:02 · answer #9 · answered by Jennifer B 1 · 7⤊ 5⤋