Homosexuality is more accepted and integrated into today’s society than ever before. Same-sex marriages provoke debate in countries around the world and in the United States. Same-sex couples are faced with some legal issues when they decide to create a full family with children, however they are allowed to adopt children by the law. If it’s so, in this case we are starting to talk about families in which children, who are surrounded with two same-sex parents, and the consequences and problems that may arise while those children are growing up. One of the biggest controversial debates is children’s development of gender identity in such families. It is important to try to understand, as objectively as possible, what it means for a child to
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There is a theory described by Taub, in the article “Fit or Unfit? Homosexuality and Parenting”. The theory describes that the main determinants of sexual orientation are hormonal and neurological variables operating during pregnancy, but they become fully activated only during puberty period. So only environmental factors that we experienced before the puberty period would have impact and would arouse biological changes that later could determine children’s preferences in gender identity towards themselves. This is the only theory that can describe that homosexual orientation could be biologically driven. After many years of extensive research, Taub was trying to disprove that children raised in homosexual households will be more likely to become homosexuals than children raised in heterosexual households. The result that research showed was really interesting. Taub found that a child couldn’t develop sexual tendencies “as a result of living with homosexual parents, or for that matter, with the heterosexual parents”. This research gave even more information that anyone would expect to get, because now we know that children that grow up in the heterosexual family have slightly the same chances to become homosexual later on, same as children in a homosexual family. This was really shocking, since people are really biased about questions like that, especially …show more content…
The outcomes of research were categorized into 6 main areas. We will look only at one - ‘Gender Identity’, because this one have straight and forward connection to current research paper. The 2 analyses showed that “The overall mean difference for gender identity was 0.07 with a standard error of 0.18. The 95% confidence interval for the overall mean difference for the gender identity outcome ranged from - 0.28 to 0.43”. This is indicating that there was no statistically big difference for identity of gender between children raised by heterosexual parents and those that were raised by same-sex parents (Crowl, Ahn, Baker, 2008). According to the article, 564 same-sex parent families and 641 heterosexual parent families were participating in the current experiment. The data were sufficient to make any conclusions, regarding the effect of sexual identity on the child, by taking into a count all aspects such as gender, age, mental, social, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds of
There is a theory described by Taub, in the article “Fit or Unfit? Homosexuality and Parenting”. The theory describes that the main determinants of sexual orientation are hormonal and neurological variables operating during pregnancy, but they become fully activated only during puberty period. So only environmental factors that we experienced before the puberty period would have impact and would arouse biological changes that later could determine children’s preferences in gender identity towards themselves. This is the only theory that can describe that homosexual orientation could be biologically driven. After many years of extensive research, Taub was trying to disprove that children raised in homosexual households will be more likely to become homosexuals than children raised in heterosexual households. The result that research showed was really interesting. Taub found that a child couldn’t develop sexual tendencies “as a result of living with homosexual parents, or for that matter, with the heterosexual parents”. This research gave even more information that anyone would expect to get, because now we know that children that grow up in the heterosexual family have slightly the same chances to become homosexual later on, same as children in a homosexual family. This was really shocking, since people are really biased about questions like that, especially …show more content…
The outcomes of research were categorized into 6 main areas. We will look only at one - ‘Gender Identity’, because this one have straight and forward connection to current research paper. The 2 analyses showed that “The overall mean difference for gender identity was 0.07 with a standard error of 0.18. The 95% confidence interval for the overall mean difference for the gender identity outcome ranged from - 0.28 to 0.43”. This is indicating that there was no statistically big difference for identity of gender between children raised by heterosexual parents and those that were raised by same-sex parents (Crowl, Ahn, Baker, 2008). According to the article, 564 same-sex parent families and 641 heterosexual parent families were participating in the current experiment. The data were sufficient to make any conclusions, regarding the effect of sexual identity on the child, by taking into a count all aspects such as gender, age, mental, social, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds of