Tag Archives: parenting

Via press release: For many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth in Central Brooklyn, being rejected by parents or family members can lead to risky and dangerous behavior. Project Accept LGBT Youth (ALY), a CAMBA HIV prevention initiative, is working to change this by encouraging parents, guardians and families to accept these young people. Funded by the New York …

Via Project Q Atlanta: Last month, Daniel Pierce was disowned by his family in a violent confrontation as they attempted a “pray away the gay” intervention. Pierce, a 19-year-old college student, recorded the incident in a video that quickly went viral and was viewed by millions of people. On Friday, Pierce was on hand for Lost N Found’s open house …

440K views in one day of this YouTube clip in which a kid comes out to his family, only to have them curse him because Jesus, then physically attack him. Dan Savage writes: “That was hard to listen to. Jesus. Fucking. Christ. My heart breaks for that poor, brave, tough kid. What the fuck is wrong with these people? We …

Brian Tashman writes at Right Wing Watch: On today’s edition of the “700 Club,” a viewer told Robertson that her 13-year-old step-son, who “lives with his mother most of the time,” has “crushes on boys” and wanted the televangelist’s help. Repeating the myth that homosexuality is the result of a lack of parental bonding, Robertson said “his attraction is now …

A new smartphone app allows parents to remotely lock up their child’s phone until the child calls them back. “If your children ignore your repeated calls and text messages to reach them, you simply lock their phones until they call you back,” says the description of the app. “When you lock your child’s phone with Ignore No More your child …

In a case that mirrors a similarly tragic outcome earlier this year in Oregon, a Los Angeles couple is being tried for viciously abusing and murdering the mother’s eight year-old son after taunting him for playing with dolls. You may not want to read any further. Before 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez was allegedly beaten to death by his mother and her …

Via the Daily Mail: When Jeff and Hillary Whittington, of San Diego, got the news in 2007 that they were having a daughter, the couple had no idea that in a few years’ time they will be raising a son instead. Last Thursday, the family were honored at the 6th annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast, accepting the Inspiration Award after …

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A New Jersey couple has filed a lawsuit which demands that they be allowed to torture their 15 year-old son with “ex-gay” therapy. According to the lawsuit, the teen suffers from “unwanted gender identity disorder and unwanted same-sex attractions” and has contemplated suicide. It goes on to describe how he “began to think he would like himself much better if …

According to a just published study, the size of a man’s testicles can predict how involved he’ll be in the upbringing of his children. Researchers at Emory University, US, said those with smaller testicles were more likely to be involved with nappy changing, feeding and bath time. They also found differences in brain scans of fathers looking at images of …

Over at the Friendly Atheist, they’re having some fun with the cover of a new e-book about about beating the Jesus into your kids (so to speak), which features a photo of the cast of that godless pro-gay show, Modern Family. Readers at Friendly Atheist found the author on Twitter to happily clue him in and he’s just responded at …

More from Pew’s latest study: In 1985, a Los Angeles Times survey found that 64% of the public said they would be “very upset” if their child told them he or she was gay or lesbian. By 2004, that number had fallen by almost half (33%). Since then, it has declined another 14 points, to 19%. Instead, a majority (55%) …

Yesterday the Munich Evening News broke a story which claims that a local gay man has fathered 22 children via sperm donations to women in several countries. Gay Star News reports: He has never had sex with a woman but Markus K from Munich, Germany may be the gay dad with the most kids in the world – 22 so …

An Australian couple tells their three year-old son that he can’t marry Mommy because “she already has a husband.”  Boy: “I want a husband!” Father: “[Prime Minister] Julia Gillard says you can’t have a husband.” Much sobbing ensues.

New Zealand’s government gets the final say on what you can name your baby. Just released is the latest list of banned names. Lucifer cannot be born in New Zealand. And there’s no place for Christ or a Messiah either. In New Zealand, parents have to run by the government any name they want to bestow on their baby. And …

(Via JMG reader Dustin)

The mother claims she should not have been arrested even though the “beating caused bleeding and left marks on the boy’s thighs, forearms, hands, torso and back.” She adds that the first police officer on the scene told her, “Parent to parent, I probably would have shot him. I probably would have shot both of them.”

Germany’s Constitutional Court today ordered the government to draft new laws allowing same-sex couples improved adoption rights. Via Der Spiegel: The Constitutional Court ruled as expected that one member of a civil partnership must be given the right to adopt their partner’s stepchild or adopted child. Until now, unlike heterosexual married couples, they were only able to adopt a partner’s …