title: Perceived parental control in childhood and sexual preferences of adult offspring.
abstract: To assess the relation between perceived parental control during childhood and sexual preferences of offspring during adulthood, 80 adult offspring of heterosexual orientation reported significantly lower parental control during childhood than 7 adult offspring with nonheterosexual orientation.
authors.affiliation: Center for the Study of Parental Acceptance and Rejection, School of Family Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06269-2058, USA.
authors.forename: Abdul
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khaleque
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001318:Authoritarianism; D001727:Bisexuality / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005260:Female; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010541:Permissiveness; D010553:Personality Development; D012718:Set, Psychology; D012723:Sex; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology