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Children being raised by gay/lesbian parents.?

I am genuinely curious about this topic. I am not discriminating at all, I actually love gays/lesbians. I just graduated with a BA in psychology and I was out to dinner last night with my mom and her friend. They were talking about how it is very important to be married if you are going to have kids. I have learned in numerous classes that while being married is advantageous if you have kids, what it really comes down to is having a strong and positive male and female influence/role model in the kids life. My mom's friend then brought up that research shows that being raised with gay/lesbian parents has no negative effects on the kids, which I have read as well. So I'm wondering, how do these theories coexist?

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    10 years ago
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    Because a man can be a very strong male influence, but he could also be a very strong female influence depending of his personality. Idem for women. Everybody has some masculinity and some femininity in them to some levels as shows our hormones (women have some testosterone, reverse is true).

    Like Yin and Yang goes, there's always two sides to a coin, and a functioning couple, whereas it doesn't need to be a man and a woman to function, needs balance as well. Some femininity, some masculinity.

    As for raising children, even a couple of very androgynous people can do it very well and the kid also have their male and female role models. Why? Because androgynous doesn't mean 50% male 50% female, or even 0%. It's 100% male 100% female; the kid gets twice the role models because they get it from both parents!

    Those two theories coexist without problem. Gay parents are most often great parents because they need to put so much more effort into it than most straight couples do, society forces them to.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    i think of of it relies upon on inspite of if or now not the teen is gay or lesbian. i understand its impossible to tell for a newborn, yet on an identical time as the babies satisfied, then it particularly isn't important. they are going to benefit that their kin is in assessment to optimal others, and if it fits them in later existence, then it advance precise right into a good upbringing. it does by no potential be as undesirable as bringing your newborn up homophobic. Why can now not homophobes purely settle for that some all human beings is distinctive, and in the event that they're able to't, then in retaining with threat they could prefer to be those secluding themselves on a wasteland island, a suggestions removed from each physique who can pose a risk to their narrow minded little worlds.

  • 10 years ago

    They are perpetuated by people who don't really know what they are talking about. If kids can grow up in a single parent family and show no disorders, then surely they can grow up well in a home with two parents even if they are the same sex. P&P :-)

  • ?
    Lv 4
    10 years ago

    Your mom's friend's opinion is no based on any scientific fact, such "studies" are biased to conform to the leftist wings policies which are trying to change people's minds into believing that abortion, euthanasia, gay "marriage" and such things are right, which is not based, as I said before in scientific research.

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