Children who identify as LGBTQ have a harder time finding foster homes. How can foster parents best raise a healthy and happy LGBTQ youth? In this course, we talk with Mark Lacava, the Clinical Director of the Modern Family Center at Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children, about what parents need to know to create a welcoming, safe home for LGBTQ youth.
This course covers the following topics:
- Cultural sensitivity begins with language. What is the correct language to use when referring to people within this community?
- Can sexual identity be changed?
- At what age do most kids report knowing they are attracted to someone of the same sex?
- At what age, on average, do kids/youth begin to identify as LGBTQ?
- Can prior abuse cause a child to be gay or lesbian or identify as LGBTQ?
- Are LGBTQ youth more likely than other youth to be mentally ill?
- Are LGBTQ youth more likely to molest children or youth?
- How should parent's behave when they accept a youth that has already identified as LGBTQ versus when a child who comes out later as LGBTQ?
- What are some of the issues for the LGBTQ community in general that parents raising a child who will become an adult in this community need to be aware of?
- How can parents protect their child from prejudices within their extended family?
- How can parents help kids who are questioning and have not settled on a sexual orientation?
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