New Evidence Found for Childhood Family Factors Influencing Sexual Orientation

NARTH ^ | October 27, 2006 | Linda Ames Nicolosi

[scripter]

("Childhood Family Correlates of Heterosexual and Homosexual Marriages: A National Cohort Study of Two Million Danes," by Morten Frisch and Anders Hviid, Archives of Sexual Behavior Oct 13, 2006; [E-publication ahead of print])

A major study is about to be published in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal, Archives of Sexual Behavior, which provides striking new evidence for the influence of childhood family factors on sexual-orientation development.

The study used a population-based sample of 2,000,355 native-born Danes between the ages of 18 and 49. Denmark -- a country noted for its tolerance of a wide variety of alternative lifestyles, including homosexual partnerships -- was the first country to legalize gay marriage. The researchers assessed detailed marriage records for all Danish-born men and women marrying a same-sex partner from the years 1989 through 2001.

With access to the "virtually complete registry coverage of the entire Danish population," the study sample therefore lacked the problematic selection bias that has plagued many previous studies on sexual orientation.

Parental Influences on Sexual Orientation Development

The authors conclude: "Our study provides population-based, prospective evidence that childhood family experiences are important determinants of heterosexual and homosexual marriage decisions in adulthood."

Assuming that people who marry heterosexually are almost always heterosexual -- especially in a country where homosexuality carries little stigma, and gay marriage is legal -- and people who marry homosexually can be presumed to be homosexual, the study's findings offer intriguing evidence about family factors separating homosexual from heterosexual persons.

The following are findings from this new data:

1. Men who marry homosexually are more likely to have been raised in a family with unstable parental relationships -- particularly, absent or unknown fathers and divorced parents.
2. Findings on women who marry homosexually were less pronounced, but were still associated with a childhood marked by a broken family. The rates of same-sex marriage "were elevated among women who experienced maternal death during adolescence, women with short duration of parental marriage, and women with long duration of mother-absent cohabitation with father."
3. Men and women with "unknown fathers" were significantly less likely to marry a person of the opposite sex than were their peers with known fathers.
4. Men who experienced parental death during childhood or adolescence "had significantly lower heterosexual marriage rates than peers whose parents were both alive on their 18th birthday. The younger the age of the father's death, the lower was the likelihood of heterosexual marriage."
5. "The shorter the duration of parental marriage, the higher was the likelihood of homosexual marriage...homosexual marriage rates were 36% and 26% higher among men and women, respectively, who experienced parental divorce after less than six years of marriage, than among peers whose parents remained married for all 18 years of childhood and adolescence."
6. "Men whose parents divorced before their 6th birthday were 39% more likely to marry homosexually than peers from intact parental marriages."
7. "Men whose cohabitation with both parents ended before age 18 years had significantly (55% -76%) higher rates of homosexual marriage than men who cohabited with both parents until 18 years."
8. The mother's age was directly linked to the likelihood of homosexual marriage among men -- the older the mother, the more likely her son was to marry another man. Also, "only children" were more likely to be homosexual.

9. Persons born in large cities were significantly more likely to marry a same-sex partner -- suggesting that cultural factors might also affect the development of sexual orientation.

"Whatever ingredients determine a person's sexual preferences and marital choices," conclude the study's authors, "our population-based study shows that parental interactions are important."

[Tax-chick]

Captain Obvious was here.

[Jeff Chandler]

All gay men are formed by finding Helen Thomas naked in their bed.

I would just renounce sex for the rest of my life.

[avile]

Interesting,
It goes along with gang raping being considered a latent homosexual act.

[nmh]

Concerning males turning to homosexuality there is a theme - NO MALE ROLE MODELS and NO healthy nurturing by a MALE FATHER FIGURE.

Girls have similar problems with the relationship with their mother - when mothers are aloof, no time for them - they crave this EMOTIONALLY from OTHER FEMALES when they are of age. It's an unnatural affection acted out sexually.

It's really NOT very complicated why people deprived of EMOTIONAL LOVE from one of their parents TURN to SAME SEX relationships to satisfy THAT DEEP VOID.

[Snapping Turtle]

Based on the facts in this study, why would any country want to make homosexual marriages legal, and abandon the "one man/one woman" marriage which might eliminate the mental disorder of homosexuality among offspring? To be left without a mother or father by death is truly a great loss to a child, but for the country to purposely place that child in peril of becoming gay by eliminating the need for two strong parents through manmade laws is unconscionable.

[Jackson Brown]

All gay men are formed by finding Helen Thomas naked in their bed.
I would just renounce sex for the rest of my life.


I wouldn't have to renounce it, my libido would die right then and there!

[rfp1234]

--Men and women with "unknown fathers" were significantly less likely to marry a person of the opposite sex than were their peers with known fathers.--

Aha! That fits perfectly with the profile of BJ Blythe Clinton (and the Hildebeest). He may have married her, but for political reasons, not for sex.

[theDentist]

Mp> They forgot about men whose mother bought them coolats when he was 12.

[mutley]

"This is all nonsense. All gay men are formed by finding Helen Thomas naked in their bed."

Just great...I was going to eat dinner in awhile. Now I'll have to observe at least two episodes of Baywatch to erase that.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Now I'll have to observe at least two episodes of Baywatch to erase that."

You really think Hasselhoff's that cute?

[Graybeard58]

Good one Joe.

[RobbyS]

I never had anything against homsexuals until they started to use the law to make make us repeat their lies about their condition, or about their treatment by society. My understanding is that not every effeminant male is a homosexual, but that all of these sissies take punishment, not for their "sexual orientation" but because of their perceived weakness. A lot of these guys get pushed into the life style because they can't defend themselves.

[Anita1]

LOL! THAT would be a scary thought!

[RobbyS]

Are ypou daring to sduggest that Bill Clinton is a (true) homophobe? ;-)

[madison10]

Then in the inner city homosexuality should be rampant-its not.

They find male gang members to bond with or another strong male influence...like a pastor.

[hinckley buzzard]

Then in the inner city homosexuality should be rampant-its not

Homosexuality in the 'inner city' is heavily stigmatized and largely under-acknowledged. Whatever "rampant" means, I don't know, but there is an abundance of it happening. Don't kid yourself.

[Jeff Chandler]

Are ypou daring to sduggest that Bill Clinton is a (true) homophobe? ;-)

You know, now that you mention it, I guess he is.

[jocon307]

"Then in the inner city homosexuality should be rampant-its not"

yeah, that's what I was thinking. But maybe it is and we don't know it. It's common in prison and there are a lot of folks from broken homs in prison. And I am not 100$ sure you can take a study of Danes and expect the same results in the American ghetto.

[Jeff Chandler]

people deprived of EMOTIONAL LOVE from one of their parents TURN to SAME SEX relationships to satisfy THAT DEEP VOID.

Concise.

[BubbaHeel]

Then in the inner city homosexuality should be rampant-its not

Actually it is rampant.

I don't know if I've ever met a black guy I didn't suspect was at least bi-sexual.

PS: I've been predicting this sort of thing for going on decades now: Little boys who grow up without fathers imitate the only adults they know, which are women. Hence they grow up to behave sexually like women, i.e. they grow up to be homosexuals.