Homosexuality: is it learned, biological or both?
The answer to this question deeply concerns parents. They want to know how they can best raise their children. A common belief today is that nothing can be done to foster the development of healthy heterosexual orientation in children. But the clinical experience and professional research of Dr. Nicolosi and others indicates otherwise.
In this groundbreaking book Joseph and Linda Ames Nicolosi uncover the most significant factors that contribute to a child's healthy sense of self as male or female. Listening to moving recollections from ex-homosexual men and women who describe what was missing in their own childhoods, the Nicolosis provide clear insight for identifying potential developmental roadblocks and give practical advice to parents for helping their children securely identify with their gender.
Replete with personal stories from parents, children and ex-homosexual strugglers, offers compassion and hope for all those parents who seek to lay a foundation for a healthy heterosexual identity in their children.
Author(s): Joseph Nicolosi; Linda Ames Nicolosi
Edition: Paperback
Publisher: IVP Books
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 254
Acknowledgments......Page 10
For Parents: Words to the Wise......Page 11
Masculinity Is an Achievement......Page 20
Why Should Parents Intervene?......Page 37
Born This Way?......Page 62
All in the Family......Page 73
Friends and Feelings......Page 109
Confronting Adolescence......Page 132
From Tomboys to Lesbians......Page 171
The Politics of Treatment......Page 192
The Healing Process......Page 212
A Mother’s Journal......Page 248
What Medical Associations Aren’t Telling Parents......Page 276
Notes......Page 286