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Something to Tell You: The Road Families Travel When a Child Is Gay
Herdt, Gilbert H.; Koff, Bruce
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Description for Something to Tell You: The Road Families Travel When a Child Is Gay
paperback. An internationally known anthropologist and an eminent social worker/psychotherapist show how families can thrive and actually grow through the creation of more honest relationships when a son or daughter comes out. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JFSK; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 317.
Even now, at the end of the twentieth century, many still have difficulty standing up and saying, "I am the parent of a gay child." Something to Tell You recounts the stories of families whose lives have been touched by the discovery that a child is lesbian or gay-how it affects and influences people's perceptions of their children and even changes the self-image of parents themselves. Focusing on fifty average families-not people seen in clinics or therapy-the authors found a consistent pattern of change: first negative, then positive. Sometimes the news led parents and siblings to form stronger bonds ... Read more
Even now, at the end of the twentieth century, many still have difficulty standing up and saying, "I am the parent of a gay child." Something to Tell You recounts the stories of families whose lives have been touched by the discovery that a child is lesbian or gay-how it affects and influences people's perceptions of their children and even changes the self-image of parents themselves. Focusing on fifty average families-not people seen in clinics or therapy-the authors found a consistent pattern of change: first negative, then positive. Sometimes the news led parents and siblings to form stronger bonds ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231104395
SKU
V9780231104395
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About Herdt, Gilbert H.; Koff, Bruce
Gilbert Herdt is director of the Human Sexualities Program at San Francisco State University. The author of a number of books on gay men and lesbians, including Same Sex, Different Cultures: Exploring Gay and Lesbian Lives and, with Andrew Boxer, Children of Horizons: How Gay Teens Are Leading a New Way Out of the Closet, he is also the editor ... Read more
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