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Ryan, Huebner, Diaz, and Sanchez (2009) have studied the impact of family Tiffany Signature Drop pendant on LGB adolescents, and their work has shown that families who are rejecting toward their children's sexuality and gender report higher levels of suicidality, depression, substance use, and engagement in unprotected sexual activity. Family acceptance is extremely important for LGBTQ children and teens, but it is not yet known if growing up in an LGBTQ family will provide greater acceptance. For many reasons, LGBTQ parents may not easily embrace their LGBTQ children. Fitzgerald (2010) refers to the "broken mirror" (p. 158), when the adult's painful experiences with homophobia block their ability to be fully present for their child's coming out process. The Bow pendant own psychological pain clouds their ability to be reflective, and they project their own histories of pain onto their child. Kuvalanka and Goldberg's (2009) preliminary research shows that gender may be a mediating factor in acceptance. Queer identified sons of lesbian mothers tended to feel that their parents might be judgmental of their emerging identities and notably, queer and transgender youth feel less supported by their parents than gay and lesbian youth do. Oddly, "these parents resisted heteronormativity through their own embodiment of queer parenting, [and] they also upheld heteronormativity with reactions to their children's disclosures" (Kuvalanka & Goldberg, 2009, p. 117).

There is a great need for ongoing research on LGBTQ parenting. LGBTQ research has suffered Mom heart tag pendant a sampling bias of White, middle-class parents (primarily lesbians) from urban cities in first world countries. Stacey and Biblarz (2001) ponder how socioeconomic class impacts the decision of LGBTQ people to become parents and how working class parents (including those of color) may be less likely to participate in academic studies. Research on transsexual, transgender, genderqueer parents and butch/femme identified parents will Love Locket and Chain expand our understanding of gender and sexuality in life of families.

Kyle's parents spent months in therapy agonizing about how to address Kyle's gender dysphoria once school started. One day, Lucinda, Kyle's sister walked into the bathroom and saw Kyle trying to cut his penis off with a scissor. She screamed and Suzannah came running up the stairs. Kyle raced into her arms, Snowflake pendant, "Please, please don't make me be a boy. I can't stand it." It was a defining moment in the life of the family. The family sat down together to discuss the situation and Ramone, their oldest son, said, "You can't make him suffer this way." Luz and Suzannah decided to follow Kyle's lead. They met with the school, and decided to let Kylia begin school as a girl.