Gay Parenting Styles Of Homosexual Parents

A parenting style that has become more common in today’s world the parenting style of homosexual parents. Homosexual parenting is officially known as LGBT parenting. LGBT parenting is defined as, “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people raising one or more children as parents or foster care parents. This includes: children raised by same-sex couples (same-sex parenting), children raised by single LGBT parents, and children raised by an opposite-sex couple where at least one partner is LGBT.”(online) This notion of LGBT parenting more often than not gets called into the question around the topic of religion. A famous bible versus that gets used to condemn LGBT parenting is Genesis 19: “God sends two angels disguised as men into the City of Sodom where the
In order to demonstrate these potential influential factors Pamela F. Foley and Amanda M. Aster conduct a study that analyzed “10 adult children with both a gay or lesbian parent and a heterosexual parent were interviewed and asked to retrospectively explore how religion impacted their parent-child relationships.”(2) This study produces results that reflected both positive and negative effects of having an LGBT parenting relationship impact their development as a person. In terms of negative effects, the overarching result is associated to “initially feeling shame, tension, or awkwardness over having a gay or lesbian parent.”(2) These initial feelings were thus connected to stress that arises from commutative relations. Whether these stresses were from a lack of acceptance or understanding of said differences between “normal” parenting styles and the ones LGBT parenting styles