Psicologia

Gay Parenting

The conception that lesbians and gay men may be parents is frequently perceived in today’s society as impossible or immoral. Gay men and lesbians are often viewed as excluded from having children because sexual reproduction is related to men and women only. My approach to this uniquely controversial topic of gay parenting will be that of attempting to analyze thePro side first. Gays and lesbians are human too and who is to say that they don’t deserve equal rights in society. Society has to realize that the modern family has developed into many different forms in recent years and the nuclear family is not necessarily the most common form anymore.
Then I will attempt to analyze the Con side which expresses the fact that two people ofthe same sex should not be raising and rearing children together. Many believe that if the couple is unable to produce children together, then they shouldn’t be raising them as parents. Children need a balance in their lives and different sexed parents can provide that balance efficiently. Each parent (mom or dad) socializes the child differently and the child needs to be introduced to both worlds.I will then proceed to critique both sides on strengths and weaknesses, based on facts, and my own opinion, and then draw some of my own conclusions on this controversial topic of Gay Parenting.
There is no valid reason for refusing to call lesbian and gay headed household families. They fall under every conceivable criterion for identifying families and the concept of aFamily. They socialize children, engage in emotional and physical support, and make up part of a larger society. There are also many homophobic ( the irrational fear or hatred of homosexuality or gay people) individuals in today’s society who are the main cause of negative stereotypes against lesbians and gay parents. These negative stereotypes all prove to be untrue and irrational, revealing that gayand lesbian parents could be equally as fit to straight parents.
The accusation that majority of gay men are child molesters has been rejected in that the overwhelming majority of child sexual abusers area heterosexual men, who abuse both boys and girls. The fear that children of lesbian and gay parents will become lesbian or gay is irrational in that studies show that thesexual orientation of the parents has no affect whatsoever on sexual orientation of youths. The concern that the children of gay and lesbian headed families will not develop so called appropriate gender identity or gender behavior has been introduced. This was proved incorrect in that when comparing children of gay parents to children of straight parents, there was no significant difference in thesetwo areas. The last stereotype involving the fear that emotional damage will affect the child due to coping with the issue of having lesbian or gay parents. Once again this was proved to be false and the general psychological well-being of children in gay and lesbian households matches that of children of heterosexual parent households.
These common stereotypes heard frequently intoday’s society have all been proved incorrect and ignorant. Therefore they illustrate that gay and lesbian parents are continually stereotyped against unfairly and unjustly. Lesbians and gay men are popularly and commonly thought of by society to have a negative influence on children. This places an enormous strain and great pressure on lesbian and gay headed families, which is totallyunnecessary.
Society must come to realize that every family, not just gay headed families, experience problems in their homes. Everyone deals with pressures of everyday life and it is those who learn by them that are prosperous. With specific reference to child rearing, parents were told that problems arise in all homes, with all children, and at all ages, the interesting fact being...