[kingu]

"This study clearly shows the tremendous harm of family rejection, even if parents think they are well-intentioned, following deeply held beliefs or even protecting their children," said Sten Vermund, MD

Or the alternative hypothesis, that the state sponsored re-education of our youth to the homosexual lifestyle is actually harmful and endangers our children.

[sinanju]

It’s in everyone’s interest to prevent this. It’s the gays cruelly rejected by their parents who grow up determined to take revenge on the world at large.

With the results you have seen recently.

[Army MP Retired]

Accept me or I will rebel... This is a new concept, how?

[Houghton M.]

Could you have the title corrected? From the excerpt it appears that the poor health is during early adulthood, not early childhood, and is a result of, not a precursor to, recognition of purported same-sex attraction.

[Houghton M.]

Okay, I see that the bad title comes from the linked article—an astounding error. But can a parenthetical correction be added? It’s rather confusing as it stands.

[stinkerpot65]

Parents should note just how left-wing and anti-Christian pediatric groups have become.

[Houghton M.]

I take it that Eureka Alert is a gay publication? If so, the fact that they can’t write a headline that reflects the content of the article may be telling.

[mo]

Well...OBVIOUSLY ..the rearing of such sensitives in a traditional family setting is a violation of their civil rights....

[CharlesWayneCT]

The research sample included 224 LGB young non-Latino white and Latino adults, ages 21 to 25, who were open about their sexual orientation to at least one parent or primary caregiver during adolescence. These youth were recruited within California from 249 LGBT-related venues. Family rejection measures in the survey were developed based on a prior in-depth qualitative study of LGBT adolescents and families throughout California from 2002-2004.

I'm not surprised that rejection by family would cause depression and lead to destructive behaviors. But given the description above I wonder about methodology.

There are not that many participants in the study, and it sounds like those participants were self-selecting, not random (the word "recruited" is a giveaway).

Given the nature of the organization doing the survey, it is likely the kids knew the organization expected them to blame their parents for their problems. So it isn't surprising that those who had problems would say they were "rejected".

The write-up doesn't say, and therefore I presume it the case, that they did NOT do any interviews with the families of the kids to see if there was any indication of "rejection".

I also would love to see the actual criteria for rating "rejection" that the study says they "developed" over several years of previous interviews.

I wonder if a parent simply forbidding the kid to bring a gay friend into the house would be considered "rejection".

Lastly, I would note that the study, by looking at active homosexuals (again we can infer this because the kids were recruited from gay venues).

So the study will only include kids who were NOT HELPED by the family actions. What if we found out that 20% of the kids who thought they might be gay were "straightened out" by whatever "rejection" was given by parents, while 10% of those who clearly were not gay but just confused ended up in the gay lifestyle because the parents were too "accepting".

If so, given the much higher rate of depression, suicide, HIV, and other medical problems in GENERAL which plague the gay community, it could well be that "rejection", while bad for those who don't respond, actually reduced the problems among the entire population of "supposedly gay kids to come out to their parents".

It's like a study of "abstinence" which only interviews pregnant girls and asks how many took pledges.