Influencing children to become heterosexual
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James R said:
show 'em a nude picture of angelina jolie then see if they can be gay after that
I've gotta be honest, I think it is the parent's job to shape their children. This means that if the child is exposed to something, no matter what, it is the parent's fault for not stepping in and putting their foot down, and if they don't catch it then they're not paying enough attention to their kid. I don't believe homosexuality is a disease, or a mental disability, or a chemical imbalance, I believe it is a life choice. If a parent can't handle their kid making they own decisions in life, then they shouldnt have raised kids in the first place and/or should have maybe taken a stronger roll in shaping their kids.
Ophiolite
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I haven't read the whole thread yet, but I couldn't let this pass.D'ster said:
1. Your premises are flawed. You cannot influence someone to become heterosexual or homosexual. The tendency to be gay is innate and not influenced by society or culture.
2. All that attempts to influence sexual orientation can do is to suppress or reinforce such innate tendencies.
3. If the former, suppression, then all you are doing is creating a hostile environment in which the child will find it more difficult to become a mature, fulfilled adult.
4. I can see you are going to have major problems if your boy turns out to be gay. However these problems will pale into insignifcance beside his: a gay who knows his father sees gays as some kind of abomination. Good luck with that.
Mosheh Thezion
Registered Senior Member
JoojooSpaceape said:
WELL SAID....
-MT
JoojooSpaceape said:
If parents could shape their children, all siblings would be alike; the maximum that parents can do is demonstrate their values and mores; it is upto the children to decide whether they reflect their own. As for sexuality, the only way parents contribute is in the attitude towards it; people have repressed sexual feelings or consider sex as "dirty" or "wrong", if their parents have such attitudes or inculcate such attitudes towards sex; also works for healthy attitudes- all this does is define the expression of that child's sexuality in public; it cannot dictate his sexual preference, but it can define his attitude towards it.
Parents who try to shape their children's sexuality generally seem to be far too interested in their children's sex lives. I wonder what causes that interest? Maybe simple jealousy?
Think of it this way: Sit on your smoke break or whenever and listen to a guy talk about what he's going to do about his daughter's boyfriends, discuss what kind of underwear she's allowed, and then realize that the child is still four months from reaching the world. That's twelve, fourteen years of child-panty obsession the poor guy is facing.
Think of it this way: Sit on your smoke break or whenever and listen to a guy talk about what he's going to do about his daughter's boyfriends, discuss what kind of underwear she's allowed, and then realize that the child is still four months from reaching the world. That's twelve, fourteen years of child-panty obsession the poor guy is facing.
If no one objects to parents being able to inculcate their children (tabula rasa) with their own arbitrary moralities, then it follows ipso facto that there is similarly 'nothing wrong' with them "influencing (or trying to influence) their children to become homosexual/heterosexual" if they also feel that is 'right'.
Can't have a double standard.
Can't have a double standard.
Even after someone compleatly tried to change the question, the poll numbers speak for themselfs.
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Influencing children to become heterosexual
Old Question:
Do you think it is OK for parents to try to Influence their children to become heterosexual?
Big difference
Change:
Influencing children to become heterosexual
Old Question:
Do you think it is OK for parents to try to Influence their children to become heterosexual?
Big difference