I have not “compared gay people to cornstalks.” What I have suggested is that given specific antecedent conditions in the early lives of male children, particular outcomes are likely to result There is a common track in the developmental backgrounds of male children who become same-sex attracted. Some of its defining points will be shared later.
Life-altering conditions can just happen and be no one’s “fault.” Issues that negatively impact children’s psychological development can happen so early that biological factors such as genes and hormones have been considered to be causal. Although such claims have been made, no clearly direct ties to these sources have been found. One characteristic that has been uniformly noted is that gay males tend to be bright and sensitive.
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For our discussion, I invite you to view a marvelous research report by Dr. Edward Tronic of the department of Developmental Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. It is titled the Still Face Experiment and concerns the importance of emotional ties and resonance between infants and their parents.
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After viewing this interaction, consider the thoughts of renowned psychiatrist and child development researcher, John Bowlby. in his book entitled The making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds, he wrote: “There are few blows to the human spirit so great as the loss of someone near and dear.” Emotional disturbances in children are significantly related to “either an absence of opportunity to make affectional bonds or else long and perhaps repeated disruptions of bonds once made.”
Relational disruptions happen for various reasons: Parents become ill, incapacitated or die. A parent may be taken from the family through military service or incarceration. Divorces cause children to lose critical connections. Children can have their own, personal limiting conditions.
These things discourage little boys from finding the protective and defining arms of a of a caring father. And the void leaves a ravenous hunger.
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