Posted on 12/19/2006 9:45:14 PM PST by freedomdefender
COPENHAGEN, November 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A major study published last month in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal, Archives of Sexual Behavior, provides striking new evidence for the influence of childhood family factors on sexual-orientation development.
The study used a population-based sample of 2,000,355 native-born Danes between the ages of 18 and 49. Denmark -- a country noted for its tolerance of a wide variety of alternative lifestyles, including homosexual partnerships -- was the first country to legalize gay marriage. The researchers assessed detailed marriage records for all Danish-born men and women marrying a same-sex partner from the years 1989 through 2001.
With access to the "virtually complete registry coverage of the entire Danish population," the study sample therefore lacked the problematic selection bias that has plagued many previous studies on sexual orientation.
Parental Influences on Sexual Orientation Development
The authors conclude: "Our study provides population-based, prospective evidence that childhood family experiences are important determinants of heterosexual and homosexual marriage decisions in adulthood."
Assuming that people who marry heterosexually are almost always heterosexual -- especially in a country where homosexuality carries little stigma, and gay marriage is legal -- and people who marry homosexually can be presumed to be homosexual, the study's findings offer intriguing evidence about family factors separating homosexual from heterosexual persons.
The following are findings from this new data:
- Men who marry homosexually are more likely to have been raised in a family with unstable parental relationships -- particularly, absent or unknown fathers and divorced parents.
- Findings on women who marry homosexually were less pronounced, but were still associated with a childhood marked by a broken family. The rates of same-sex marriage "were elevated among women who experienced maternal death during adolescence, women with short duration of parental marriage, and women with long duration of mother-absent cohabitation with father."
- Men and women with "unknown fathers" were significantly less likely to marry a person of the opposite sex than were their peers with known fathers.
- Men who experienced parental death during childhood or adolescence "had significantly lower heterosexual marriage rates than peers whose parents were both alive on their 18th birthday. The younger the age of the father's death, the lower was the likelihood of heterosexual marriage."
- "The shorter the duration of parental marriage, the higher was the likelihood of homosexual marriage...homosexual marriage rates were 36% and 26% higher among men and women, respectively, who experienced parental divorce after less than six years of marriage, than among peers whose parents remained married for all 18 years of childhood and adolescence."
- "Men whose parents divorced before their 6th birthday were 39% more likely to marry homosexually than peers from intact parental marriages."
- "Men whose cohabitation with both parents ended before age 18 years had significantly (55% -76%) higher rates of homosexual marriage than men who cohabited with both parents until 18 years."
- The mother's age was directly linked to the likelihood of homosexual marriage among men -- the older the mother, the more likely her son was to marry another man. Also, "only children" were more likely to be homosexual.
- Persons born in large cities were significantly more likely to marry a same-sex partner -- suggesting that cultural factors might also affect the development of sexual orientation.
"Whatever ingredients determine a person's sexual preferences and marital choices," conclude the study's authors, "our population-based study shows that parental interactions are important."
Reference:"Childhood Family Correlates of Heterosexual and Homosexual Marriages: A National Cohort Study of Two Million Danes," by Morten Frisch and Anders Hviid, Archives of Sexual Behavior Oct 13, 2006
Does anyone else know who the people are in that picture?
Yeah, it's a well-known photo...
It's a picture of the founders of Microsoft, including Bill Gates, way back when they were still washing their faces with Stridex. LOL!
ROTF! If it's so private, why is it on the Starwars.com website? LOL!
[quote]Don't die or get divorced, your kids will be gay![/quote]
Use yer head for something other than a hat rack, eh?
It MEANS don't even GET married and have kids unless you are going to take your vows seriously, know if the person you are marrying is compatible and will be a good parent, and take RAISING YOUR KIDS SERIOUSLY!!!
And, with the common-sensical pegging of homosexuality to a bad childhood, we can see that homosexuality is more like the mental disorder it USED to be considered as until the homosexual lobby got the Psychiatric community to change their minds.
Homosexuality IS a mental disorder.
But, but, but I thought they were born that way.
Seems the decline in the traditional family contributes to homosexuality.
"Normal" is stretching the case a bit. He had Mommy issues from way back. His marriage to Priscilla started breaking down as soon as Lisa Marie was born, because he couldn't reconcile the idea of someone as both a mother and a sexual being. That, and he had a thing for teenaged girls, including the ones he hired to wrestle each other in white cotton panties.
Dude had more issues than National Geographic.
Not sure why the glam-thing happened in his later years.
He was a showman. It was the '70s. Glam was what audiences wanted. I don't think there's any chance that he was gay, because, well, have you seen Graceland? His taste in interior decor was beyond appalling.
I don't buy it. "Judge me by my size, do you?" isn't something a woman would say. More like "Fat does this cloak make my butt look?"
In what country? Calypso and Samba were roughly contemporaneous with the rise of Rock & Roll, and bebop came earlier. As did folk, in groups like the Kingston Trio.
Teen idols tend to be fey and androgynous, because they're non-threatening to the age group that buys Tiger Beat magazine. That goes back to Tab Hunter and Frankie Avalon (probably way past that, but I can't think of any off the top of my head), includes Shaun Cassidy, Michael Jackson in the late Jackson 5 era, Simon leBon, Prince, a young Matt Dillon, and more recently Leo DiCaprio. Where the boys on the poster are shirtless, they're also hairless, or they won't share wall space with the unicorn posters.
That's reading too much into it. Infants are born asexual. Whether they later identify as hetero-, homo- bi-, trans- or asexual, or exhibit some form of deviancy or paraphilia, probably involves an interplay of genetic predisposition and environmental factors, as do a great many aspects of human behavior.
I agree. My experience with the homosexual community is that the VAST MAJORITY have suffered some form of sexual molestation as a child. It seems so obvious yet I never see any studies on it. Hmmmm. Could these studies be agenda driven?
I don't see how that is in any way obvious. Nor is it obvious that homosexuality is aberrant in the animal kingdom -- in fact, the available evidence argues to the contrary. In many primates, most notably bonobos, sexual release has a social bonding function quite separate from reproduction.
There's a pretty credible argument, based on animal studies, that there are selective pressures in favor of homosexuality. Incidences of homosexual behavior among animals tend to increase when overpopulation kicks in. Populations without latent homosexuality will tend to overbreed and overfeed until they all die out, while populations with that latency will find their own form of population control and survive.
The reality is that we are born with a genetic drive to heterosexuality - and only psychosocial trauma during development powerful enough to derail that drive (ie, molestation) brings about homosexuality.
TWEEEEEEEEET! Flag on the play. Using the conclusion as a premise to prove the conclusion. Ten yards and loss of down.
The issue may have been equally how the mother dealt with the child than just the father's influence. Did the mother encourage the clinging and baby the child to "make up for" the overbearing father? Both parents teach, guide, and influence a child. I've known several gays whose fathers were (from their perception) overly strict or cold, etc. But it was the mother's reaction actually made things worse by undermining the father and promoting wrong-gender behavior.
Correlation is not causation. All of these stats are more likely CAUSED by the nature of the culture. Open homosexuality and broken familys are both results of the liberal cultural climate.
I really get tired of hearing that a causes b when all they have is a bunch of statistical correlations.
Mary Cheney baby bump.
Notice this study says makes people "more likely"
This study reall just says that people in these situations are more likely o become that way rather than it being a choice.
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