Book DescriptionHomosexuality: 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, A Parent's
Guide to Preventing Homosexuality offers compassion and hope for all those
parents who seek to lay a foundation for a healthy heterosexual identity
in their children. Features & Benefits
* draws from the clinical experience and professional research of Dr.
Nicolosi and other psychologists
* engages the question of whether homosexuality is learned, biological
or both
* uncovers significant factors that contribute to children's healthy
self-identity
* includes personal stories from parents, children and ex-homosexual
men and women
* guides parents to lay a healthy foundation for heterosexual identity
for their children
From the Author
IVP: Many people
think that homosexuality is part of a person's natural identity. Is
homosexuality really something that can be prevented?
Joseph Nicolosi: Homosexuality is understood by the majority of mental
health practitioners working in this field to result from the interaction
of biological, social and psychological factors. The social and
psychological factors can be modified. What parents can do to make a
homosexual outcome unlikely is to lay the best possible foundation for
their child's secure gender identity. IVP: Homosexuality as a
developmental disorder has been taken out of the American Psychiatric
Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Why do you still say that
it is a developmental disorder?
Linda Nicolosi: Psychiatry says a disorder is characterized by distress
and disability. We see a lot of subjective distress in
homosexually-oriented people which cannot be attributed solely to social
discrimination. We also believe there is evidence of a "disability" in the
homosexually-oriented person's feeling of not being comfortable with
members of their own sex, of feeling "different" and inadequate, and of
course, in not being able to function according to their biologically
mandated sexual design.
There is a proven higher level of psychiatric disorders suffered by
homosexually-oriented people, even in very gay-friendly countries like The
Netherlands. This, including the high level of gay promiscuity and the
interest in perverse practices--the search for what gay men call "sexual
variety"--is suggestive, we believe, that nature's design is heterosexual.
Furthermore, the gay world is very destructive to our communal
understanding of healthy gender identity and gender roles, to the
stability of the traditional family, and to our integrity as persons who
are designed to live in accordance with our created natures.
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