Based on what I have read, homosexual parents are under a sort of implicit pressure to raise heterosexual kids because of the expectation that homosexual parents raise gay kids. As such, it is kind of one of those situations where there is no way to know how the environment plays out because societal expectations and stigmas could also be influencing the environment the children are raised in. In the few studies that look into the sexuality of children raised in homes with a homosexual parent, they tend to find those people grow up more comfortable exploring their sexuality,
which includes trying same sex experiences, but not a significant amount more identify as gay than their heterosexually raised counterparts. Of course that is based on like two or three studies with extremely small sample sizes, so I don't know.
Right. That was the point.
I wasn't trying to suggest that children of gay parents are trained to be gay but just like with all child development there is certainly a strong tendency for what they experience in the home to become part of their own life because they think that's how it's supposed to be.
And yes, it can overwhelm how they otherwise would have behaved.
At a minimum ... it would likely be thoroughly confusing.
The amount of exposure to alternatives seems to me to be a critical factor.
Regardless, as you've said, too few studies with too small samples ... and that's not good.
