How did you think they have children?
Well, of course, and the article reeks of an agenda, but it still seems highly odd (if true) that gay and lesbian teens – and specifically the ones secure enough to identify as such, not kids who are still figuring out their sexuality – would be producing significantly more pregnancies than het kids. Unless gay kids are hyperfertile, that implies they’re having more hetero sex than the kids who actually enjoy that sort of thing. Is that not weird?
In the 70’s 80’s there was disgraceful cartoon mocking the radical-feminist lesbians which depicted a (man-hating) woman and hir partner who had undergone artificial fertility treatment for the sole purpose of being able to achieve that pinnacle of wimmin’s liberation - the right to have an abortion.
Interesting article. Thanks for the link. Certainly raises the issue if gender identification as hetero or homosexual is really fixed at the age where homosexual teens/women are having sex with male partners and men with female partners.
Are you serious? Plenty of people are brought up by just one parent, and they manage it. I don’t think the commandment requires that you have both.
Are you?
I said “deliberately deprive”. Not orphans.
It says mother AND father.
You want to quibble about which came first Exodus or Deuteronomy?
Yes, IVF and artificial means of conception and pregnancy are a separate issue. But the author’s main point was that persons with a stated homosexual orientation seem to be having a lot of heterosexual sex.
Why do you think the author finds that unusual? Adolescence is a time of physical, social, and emotional changes with pressures from parents, peers, teachers and religion. As well as a marked increase in sex hormones. According to Erik Erikson, appropriate social development in adolescence requires solving the major challenge of ego-identity vs. role diffusion. To resolve this life crisis, adolescents must form an ego-identity, a strong sense of “who I am and what I stand for,” or they may suffer role diffusion (running from activity to activity…)"
The links the author supplied do not address the fixed or unchangeable characteristics of sexual orientation. They do agree with what is well established about fluidity. What they imply is that sexual orientation, along with drug abuse and lack of education are risk factors in teen pregnancies.
No, adolescents are hypersexual.
Not really. See the article Frobert linked. Also, I gay and lesbian teens might approach sex the same way the “good” girls did in years gone by. The “good girls” got pregnant and the “bad girls” didn’t because the “good girls” weren’t honest with themselves about their sexuality and the “bad girls” were and so they were prepared and used birth control.
But the study was considering adolescent homosexuals compared to adolescent non homosexuals.
How does the child with an abusive father do it?