Parenting Styles Utilized in Shaping Lesbian and Gay Children’s Behavior and Personality: An Emerging Guide

Abstract

Parenting is an enormous responsibility. It involves protecting the life of a child, providing for his optimum development and molding his character. Effective parenting is safe, nurturing children. Countless studies have been done to determine types of parenting and how this could affect the children’s behavior. Relatively little is known about how parents influence the health and well-being of lesbian and gay adolescence and young adults. The researcher utilized the descriptive mixed with quantitative method of research. It is designed to determine the parenting styles used by parents with lesbian and gay children. To be able to analyze, interpret and determine the implications of data gathering, the researcher will used statistical tools: The mean that will be used to determine the parenting styles of parents with lesbian and gay children. And the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to test differences between two or more means. The attempt to study the influence of parenting practices on child outcomes is complex because there exists an overwhelmingly wide range of parenting behaviors and an equally wide range of child behavioral outcomes. The causal relation between parenting practices in child behavior outcomes sis similarly opaque depending on the timing and measurement of the behaviors and question. Family is the fundamental and important structure of the society that has an important role in one's life and in the society. The importance of the family as a social structure is something unmistakable. Although affected by society and peers, children are more influenced by the family. The influence of the family on the child and its roles in the creativity, cultural, social and moral aspects are very great and important influenced.