- ISBN13: 9781560254522
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Product Description
Straight Parents, Gay Children is Robert Bernstein’s moving account of how he came to terms with his daughter’s homosexuality and how the experience has enriched his life. Bernstein — winner of the 1996 Award for Best Scholarship on the Subject of Intolerance, awarded by the Gustaves Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America — discusses the myths surrounding homosexuality, accepting the news, parents who speak out, public figures who ha… More >>
Straight Parents, Gay Children: Keeping Families Together
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#1 by Tommy C on April 16, 2010 - 8:49 pm
This book was recomended to me by my pastor, but not as an acceptable point of view. It has good advice as far as how your gay child sees the world, and how to start a dialog if you have lost communication with them, but is is not written from a Christian Theological viewpoint. The theme of this book is “it’s ok to be gay”. I believe that we need to love gay people just like we love others with sexual perversions. I don’t hate someone who is addicted to porn, but I do tell them that it is wrong in God’s eyes and bad for them. I get the feeling that this author would say “support your friend, join a porno support group, and tell them it’s ok to like porn even if it’s not what you like.” I would not agree with this.
I don’t think it’s ok to be gay, but I do love my child. There are much better books to help you help your gay child. Read anything by Joe Dallas.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by S. Williams on April 16, 2010 - 10:25 pm
This book leans a lot toward the gay and lesbian agenda and it’s not what I was initially looking for. However, it certainly shows a different perspective on homosexuality.
Rating: 3 / 5
#3 by S. Boucher on April 17, 2010 - 1:24 am
Bought this book for a friend of mine. She reported it to be helpful. I perused it prior to giving it to here and found it very interesting
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by Anonymous on April 17, 2010 - 3:29 am
Introduction by Robert MacNeil of the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour . . . .
1996 Award for Scholarship on the Subject of Intolerance: “An Outstanding Book on Human Rights in North America”: Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America. . . .
“A compelling portrait of straight parents’ move toward celebrating difference and speaking out against injustice ….Bernstein’s prose is sharp and his profiles are sensitive…complex and moving”: Kirkus Reviews. . . .
“Realistic. Bernstein’s tone is personal, his advice is sound….A valuable addition to psychological self-help collections”: Booklist (American Library Association). . . .
“A penetrating book. With human warmth and insightful anecdotes, [the author] invites his readers into the intensely emotional, but deeply human, issue of homosexuality. There he discovers light, not darkness, love not fear”: Episcopal Bishop John S. Spong, Diocese of Newark. . . .
“Bob Bernstein’s invaluable book shows the parents of gay children how to stop merely tolerating their kids and start being their heroes. Is there any higher goal for a parent?”: Armistread Maupin, author of Tales of the City. . . .
“Quite literally millions of parents need this book before it is too late, for we live in a society where gay adolescents attempt suicide at two to three times the rate of heterosexual teenagers”: Keith Brodie, M.D., President Emeritus, Duke University; past president, American Psychiatric Association. . . .
“This is a book EVERY parent should read”: Robb Forman Dew, Novelist, American Book Award winner. . . .
“If Bob Bernstein’s book were compulsory reading in America, the population of bigots would dwindle at a rapid rate. His ability to make the case for fairness and decency in our treatment of each other is unsurpassed”: Barney Frank, Congressman (D-Massachusetts). . . .
“‘Straight Parents/Gay Children’ represents and important and essential step in better understanding between people of different sexual orientation”: Steve Gunderson, Congressman (ret.) (R-Wisconsin). . . .
“A succinct, moving book about parents who have defied the social stigma of homosexuality to publicly support their gay children”: Washington Blade.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Anonymous on April 17, 2010 - 3:41 am
This is a great gift to present to your parents when you come out to them. Or, to buy for yourself when your child comes out to you. You’re not alone, and you’ll be surprised at how varried people’s parents’ reactions are to the big news.
Rating: 5 / 5