title: Homosexual parents.
abstract: Does the homosexuality of parents affect the sexual orientation or experiences of their children? Seventeen of 5,182 randomly obtained adults from six U.S. cities answered questionnaires indicating that they had a homosexual parent. Parental homosexuality may be related to findings that: (1) 5 of the 17 reported sexual relations with their parents; (2) a disproportionate fraction reported sexual relations with other caretakers and relatives; and (3) a disproportionate fraction: (a) claimed a less than exclusively heterosexual orientation (47%); (b) indicated gender dissatisfaction; and (c) reported that their first sexual experience was homosexual. Of 1,388 consecutive obituaries in a major homosexual newspaper, 87 of the gays who died had children and registered a median age of death of 47 (the 1,267 without children had a median age of death of 38); 10 lesbians did and 24 did not have children. We estimate that less than 1% of parents are bisexual or homosexual and that < 7% of gays and about a third of lesbians are parents.
authors.affiliation: Family Research Institute, Inc., Colorado Springs, Colorado 80962, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cameron
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cameron
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology; D002668:Child Rearing; D005260:Female; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000523:psychology*; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007179:Incest; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data