Most people don't subscribe to that "learned behavior" theory any more. I really doubt that the Cheneys, Keyes, or Randall Terry families taught their children homosexuality.
Most people don't subscribe to that "learned behavior" theory any more. I really doubt that the Cheneys, Keyes, or Randall Terry families taught their children homosexuality.
The thing that gets me is the folks who call a gay kid a "tragedy." Uh no, a tragedy is a kid who dies of a bad ticker or cancer or gets run over by a truck. A gay kid who grows up to make their place in the world isn't a tragedy. It's just some kid...
While I think that the children of homosexual parents may be a little more likely to manifest homosexual behavior, the concept of "learned behavior" means to me more likely being learned from the culture. In other words, in a less sexualized culture, a person who's attracted to people of the same sex may not necessarily express those feelings sexually -- they may just have close emotional relationships with people of the same sex. But in a culture that encourages young people to label themselves sexually at a young age based on their emotional feelings, those feelings may be more likely to find sexual expression.