New Evidence Found for Childhood Family Factors Influencing Sexual Orientation

NARTH ^ | October 27, 2006 | Linda Ames Nicolosi

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("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."

[Jeff Chandler]

effeminant male ... get pushed into the life style because they can't defend themselves.

That would explain how they are targeted by predatory fags. Once brutalized, they identify with their abuser, rather than face the shame.

[Anita1]

True!

Rape is an act of violence by the perpetrator wanting dominate, humiliate and humble someone - but, not necessarily the victim!

And I believe that homosexuals want to take out their anger on someone in a passive/aggresive way in order to humilate someone - whether ititially is was the absent dad (men looking for an absent dad) or women - (getting back at a dad)!

I personally have known some who had these problems with their parent - and it came out in homosexual ways.

Not everyone reacts this way - but those who do fall into homosexuality.

[Jeff Chandler]

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

You're kidding, right?

[KarlInOhio]

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

That happened to Bill Clinton. Everyone looked beautiful in comparison afterwards.

[Lauren BaRecall]

Thank you for this.

BTW, I have heard in two cases that the age of 5 was significant.

[Disambiguator]

It's also been PROVEN that children raised in a home WITHOUT a parent who was an English major are MUCH MORE LIKELY to post on FR using ALL CAPS.

:^)

[gusopol3]

it may be a lot more so than you think, or at least "bi-sexual " practices.

[nmh]

?

[nmh]

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

Concise.

It's SO OBVIOUS for those with eyes and want to see.

They ACT on it in their adolescence via same sex.

It's so sad how it is glorified and encouraged.

[mutley]

"You really think Hasselhoff's that cute?"

Are you kidding?

You don't think he's HOT?

[Disambiguator]

I'm just being facetious.

[BubbaHeel]

You're kidding, right?

No, actually I'm not.

[Jeff Gordon]

he study used a population-based sample of 2,000,355 native-born Danes between the ages of 18 and 49. Denmark

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." -Hamlet 1.4

[Jeff Gordon]

Thanks for putting that image in my head. /s

[bdfromlv]

depends on what you mean by the word rampant. a 5% increase, a 10% increase or 100% increase. or just enough to satisfy your interest. the crowd factor or close groups in inner cities would certainly contribute to an increase. but maybe not an epidemic.

[HelloooClareece]

I knew this thread would be funny.

[thehumanlynx]

Read up on being on the "down low" for further information about homosexuality in the inner city. Homosexuality is under a different title.

[thehumanlynx]

see "down low" as it pertains to black men.

[bdfromlv]

and it leads to a decline in the birth rates which is why the bible and religions are against homosexuality. eventual extinction of a civilization by not reproducing.

[ichabod1]

effeminant male ... get pushed into the life style because they can't defend themselves.

That would explain how they are targeted by predatory fags. Once brutalized, they identify with their abuser, rather than face the shame.

I strongly believe this to be the case. It's not that a more effeminate boy is intrinsically homosexual, but that his attributes are like a big sign saying "molest me". Then, when that occurs, the molester tells the kid he's homosexual and that there is nothing he can ever do about it. Eventually the kid believes it. Then he probably forgets it (dissociates).