Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Wyden, Barbara

Description

1. 256 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. The authors "describe the early signs of homosexuality, taking care to distinguish between occasional harmless adolescence experimentation and the more serious unfolding of a lifelong pattern. And they suggest a number of steps parents can take to prevent the disorder."

Subject

1. Children and homosexuality
2. Gay youth > Family relationships
3. Parents of gay people
4. Homosexuality
5. Gay people > Family relationships
6. Homosexuality
7. Homosexualité
8. Personnes homosexuelles > Relations familiales
9. Jeunes homosexuels > Relations familiales
10. Parents de personnes homosexuelles
11. homosexuality
12. Parents of gays
13. Children and homosexuality
14. Gays > Family relationships
15. Sexual reorientation

Genre/Form

1. Popular Work

Contents

1. Introduction -- A personal note to our readers -- Why talk about it? -- False notions and needless worries -- How mothers raise homosexual sons -- How fathers raise homosexual sons -- How parents raise homosexual daughters -- How the atmosphere at home can encourage homosexuality -- Tommy -- Johnny -- The influence of divorce, boarding school, summer camp, military service, and death in the family -- "I didn't really believe that boys and girls were different" -- How today's cultural trends encourage homosexuality -- On the brink : the process of homosexual commitment -- Mr. Harrison -- The temptations--and fears--of the gay world -- Curing homosexuality : how to get the best results -- Raising the sexually secure child.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Includes index.