I think it can. It really is nature and nurture, so that could be bad if a child originally is straight but all it sees and thinks is the lifestyle is homosexuality. Right or Wrong?
2007-10-30 06:41:18 · 51 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
The belief that gay parents can only raise gay children is as absurd as saying that straight parents can only raise straight children.
2007-10-30 06:43:57 · answer #1 · answered by Bella Latina 4 · 20⤊ 3⤋
I think it IS possible to an extent. It depends how old the child is introduced to such an environment where ONLY homosexuality is there...which would be hard to do.
People are born gay, I believe. This stupid thing of raising a straight child is stupid. There is a difference between nurturing and "showing what is 'correct' to do". People get that confused. IF you tell a child that only this is correct and all that, they most likely are going to believe it.
Gay parents do not make gay children. It's a proven fact.
2007-11-01 17:41:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, I think that in today's society that it is impossible to isolate a child from seeing heterosexual relationships. Unfortunately, this is the only relationship that many children ever see. What you have to remember is that parents are not the only influencing fator in a child's life. There are far more factors this world that tell children they should be straight that factors that tell them they should be gay. If we look at this, there doesn't seem to be a way that anyone could end up to identify as LGBTQ. This is why I think that it is not possible to come with a conclusive answer to the nature v. nurture question and that the best thing that each of us can do is be supportive of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
2007-10-30 08:40:44 · answer #3 · answered by starz530 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Nature AND Nurture. Nurture is not the only role here. Genetic predispositioning factors in. I don't believe there is any "originally straight" or "originally gay."
And why is it "bad" if all a child sees is a 'lifestyle of homosexuality'? The more a person sees and experiences, the more fullfilling their life will be! All children are exposed to a heterosexual lifestyle, but not all children are exposed to same sex couples. Just because it's not conventional does not mean it's not beneficial.
I don't think there is any "Turning" gay. It's not a disease you can catch.
2007-10-30 06:51:31 · answer #4 · answered by SurrepTRIXus 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No way, if your idea was right there would be no gay men or lesbian women. All lesbians and gay men came from HETEROSEXUALS.....so how come there are gay people?
You are born straight or gay or flexible (bi) by Nature.
How you deal with your orientation is part of your Nurture. In other words, if your gay how you feel about yourself is part of your up bringing. Do you feel dirty, ashamed or sinful because your gay or do you accept who you are without shame? This is the nurture part.
Unfortunately many gays and lesbians were raised in such a way that they hate themselves because they are only attracted to members of the same sex......see what damage religion can do without understanding?
2007-10-30 15:36:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I could accept that possibility, but woudl have to see some evidence before I'd fully beleive it.
My first thought is, what culture is this? I can think of no society or sub-culture, modern or historical, where a child would never be exposed to hetero relationships. Even the ancient Greek Isle Of Lesbos, arguably the most isolated and exclusively homosexual society ever, had a few male-female pairings around.
2007-10-30 06:46:37 · answer #6 · answered by juicy_wishun 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I disagree. While the child may see the homosexual lifestyle as normal it would not cancel out the basic urges. If your theory were true then how do you explain homosexuals when all the child sees and knows is a heterosexual lifestyle? Nurture does not always overcome nature.
2007-10-30 06:48:18 · answer #7 · answered by theoriginalquestmaker 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Sure, if he/she were locked in a little house and never went outside and only had homosexuals visit him/her. However, the minute you walk outside, you see straight people. It's impossible for a child to never encounter a straight lifestyle, so that's a completely unrealistic approach. There have been tons of studies that contradict your little 'theory', and in fact, children who live with homosexual parents have no more of a tendency towards homosexuality than a child raised by a straight male-female relationship. Nice try, though!
2007-10-30 06:46:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
Strictly my opinion!!!
I think that if someone is born straight, they're straight. Now if they are raised by a homosexual, they might be more accepting of homsexuality and prehaps even more willing to experiment but I don't they will 'turn' gay because of it.
I think it goes the other way as well. I was around nothing but hetrosexuals growing up. If there was any homosexuals, they were still deep in the closet, prehaps because of how deeply religious my family is. It wasn't until I was already questioning my sexuality that I was actually exposed to homosexuals and bisexuals.
If your theory was correct, shouldn't I be straight seeing as how I was raised in a hetrosexual world so to speak? Am I the exception to the rule? I can't be. All of my gay friends were raised by hetrosexual parents and most, if not all, of their familes are hetrosexual.
But one of my straight friends has a homosexual uncle who lived with her and her mother while she was growing up. She learned to be accepting of homosexuals but didn't turn gay.
2007-10-30 07:01:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
No, if you teach your child to respect himself and others, he will be able to stand on his own two feet - following his own God given nature.
The only gay people I know who have raised children are the proud parents of a boy and girl , who are straight with both gay and straight friends.
People are born gay, they do not become gay. They can however be taught to judge and condemn themselves, by homophobic family and friends
Perhaps one day we will simply accept one another as we are unconditionally.
Shallom
Yvonne Phillips
2007-10-31 04:32:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I think that's dumb. Homosexual people raise kids that are straight all the time.
I think your sexual preference is what it is - they will be exposed to heterosexuals as well as homosexuals, and will choose according to what is right for them.. I think that obviously they will be much more tolerant of others choices in lifestyles if they are raised that way, but that's it.
2007-10-30 06:46:57 · answer #11 · answered by nite_angelica 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋