Thread: Qualifications for parents

Originally Posted by goaT

Should foster parents be allowed to teach their children not to trust black people? Or maybe that women were created by Gawd to serve man?

I love that this has been conveniently ignored in this thread. There's a good point there.

And as someone who has had a lot of involvement with people who work in the psychological community and is likely headed for that line of work, I can tell you that you're unaware of the actual info if you don't believe that parents can harm their gay children by disapproving of them for being gay or by pressuring them into other sexual identities. All the research on issues like this together has pointed to a few things:

-Trying to change people's sexuality DOES NOT WORK. That's it. And I've looked into and discussed this quite a bit. If you know anything about science and look at the "studies" (if you can even call them that) of the prominent people and organizations that argue the opposite of this, you'd roll your eyes at the shamelessly pathetic methods.
-Another finding. If anything, pushing people towards other sexual identities or condemning theirs only pushes them towards suicidal tendencies.

And no, just telling children that your religion doesn't approve of homosexuality is not a benign thing. Especially when you raise children with a heavy dose of that religion...

It would be like having a child you don't know the race of and just deciding that it would be ok for the child to house with a neo-Nazi.