Essay On Sexual Identity Development

It is important to understand what sexuality is to understand how and why this concept might be a great affect to an adolescence child living under a household of the same sex parents. Gay and lesbian identity development is noted as homosexuality, which is used to understand the sexuality at various points in history. Sexual identity is defined as the way an individual situate themselves within each category of sexual orientation (Levy). Sexual identity development is a central task of an adolescence child can be very risk taking for youth. Bregman moved from a stage model of identity development in bisexual, lesbian, and gay youth to look at identity in multidimensional, non-linear manner. Families are a core identity to an adolescent development. Bregman has did a research on exactly how this environment has affect adolescent youth. Research developed a multidimensional model and it resulted in a sense of parental rejection parental youth. Over one hundred over these youth reported as bisexual or gay due to the lack of sexual, social, and the support of the parent overall. These youth experience struggling identities due to the lack of support from the parents and due to the sense of knowing anything other than what they have been confirmed to believing in from their household. This is a good way to better understand their growth development as an adolescence child (Bregman). In contrast, the tendency of focusing on adolescents and young adult children of lesbian mothers, Johnson believes that a child is raised and functioning just as well, if not better, than a child raised in a heterosexual parenting environment. They have been researched as well adjusted and well raised adolescence children. Although there appears to be no ...

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... parents share responsibilities, are compatible, have healthy interpersonal connections, and provide financial stability. During adolescence, it becomes more important as teenagers to develop a sense of identity, a keener awareness of minority positions, a deeper appreciation for inter-individual differences, and a firm sense of self (Gartrell). Adolescence children are usually more reflective about their younger experiences of stigmatization. Although little information about the psychosocial well-being of this child has been reported who has been raised by lesbian parents since birth. These studies have been based on data that was gathered in the 1990s, which in terms most teens had experienced a heterosexual atmosphere before parents divorced and came out as lesbian/gay. This experience is slightly different form a teen who grew up in a planned lesbian/gay home.