discuss What if your son was gay?

[Oshawott]

If it ever comes to that, despite how narrow or open views you have about alternate sexual orientations, would you accept if your son was gay?

By openess, I mean just accepting it and not taking him to conversion therapy and all those absurd things.

How do you think others would react to this update?

 

[lens]

Children need to receive absolute love and acceptance especially with their parents. I would maintain all the love and support for my son without hesitating even if he revealed being gay. I will create an environment where he can experience safety and obtain respect.

 

[Harsh World]

Children need to receive absolute love and acceptance especially with their parents. I would maintain all the love and support for my son without hesitating even if he revealed being gay. I will create an environment where he can experience safety and obtain respect.

Same, even if the roles were reversed (i.e., daughter/lesbian).

 

[ActionAce]

The most important thing for parents to do in such case is to prioritize acceptance together with love and understanding. I would commit to learning about the LGBTQ+ community and actively seeking his perspective if my son revealed his sexual orientation to be gay.

 

[Unlocked]

I don't have kids (yet) but I wouldn't care one bit about their sexuality. It wouldn't even bother me in the slightest, and I'd offer my child any support I could to deal with their feelings, and I'd expect any decent parent would do the same.

 

[Niyi Brixx]

I won't have to lie here but I would never accept a gay son. It is against my belief that someone should be gay. I would tell him straight up to switch to straight or I disown him.

 

[Ashake]

I couldn't agree more. Supportive parents should love their children without reservations no matter their sexual orientation. The rejection parents offer to their children due to their sexual orientation creates overwhelming sadness. A family should embrace every child with love and acceptance and provide necessary backing for them.

 

[Reelz]

Many LGBTQ+ people endure extreme mental health problems because they receive discrimination and rejection from their family members. Support from parents will create a situation where children can mingle with the society without fear.

 

[Kross]

I don't have a favorable disposition to gays. And I won't find it very good to hear that my son is gay. I would not disown him but my relationship with such a son would be so strained that we might not even talk. Call me homophobic. But that is just me.

 

[Jason]

Many LGBTQ+ people endure extreme mental health problems because they receive discrimination and rejection from their family members. Support from parents will create a situation where children can mingle with the society without fear.

I think a lot of kids are picked on for being gay when they aren't gay, but maybe it's different these days. I grew up in the 80s and 90s in Tennessee USA.

I really think it's a stigma to bully people they don't like, regardless of whether it's true or not. It's the "witch" thing from the Middle Ages in modern times.

 

[Pete Griffin]

When my son was born and looked down at him and said, "as long as you're happy, nothing else matters." I maintain that view. I would not care one bit if either of my children were gay. As long as they were happy. The world is changing. Sexuality is changing. The lines between gay/straight even make/female are blurring. When I was a young man gay people were seen as less than. They were ridiculed, shunned, even feared. You kept it quiet if you were gay, or you paid the price socially, emotionally, sometimes physically.

The older I get, the more I realise happiness is rare and hard-won. If my kids find it in someone who treats them well, respects them, and makes them feel loved, I don’t give a damn what gender or sexuality that person is.

 

[Jason]

I really don't think the attraction is by choice, perhaps something is causing it, but they did studies with increasing testosterone, but it didn't change the orientation.

 

[Pete Griffin]

Who said anything about it being a choice?

 

[MamaFrankie]

I don't have children (never wanted them and don't even like them) but if I did and my son was gay, I would respect and accept it. He would still be my son.

 

[Shortie]

I have three sons and one daughter and if they decided to come out as being gay or lesbian, I would accept it as that is who they are and that makes them happy.

I feel others such as friends and family would also accept it and be happy for them as long as they were happy.

 

[Fidelia1]

I don't see anything wrong with a child who is a gay. It might look strange and absurd but his happiness is my ultimate goal.

 

[Shawn]

I would love and support him whether he was gay or straight.

I think a parent disowning or shunning their kids over their sexual lifestyle choices is PURE EVIL.