Parents who have trouble accepting the news may worry that their child might face a more difficult life, one that includes bullying or harassment. Parents in this study who had known for five years or longer reported having the least amount of trouble with the fact that their child is LGB. Huebner says that the difficulty most parents experience runs a developmental course with most gradually adjusting over a long period. Fathers and mothers reported similar levels of difficulty as did parents of boys and girls.Parents of older youth said they had greater levels of difficulty compared to parents of younger children.African American and Latino parents reported greater trouble adjusting compared to white parents.Parents who had learned about their child's sexual orientation two years ago reported struggling just as much as parents who had been told very recently.Huebner and his colleagues asked parents "How hard is it for you, knowing that your son or daughter is gay, lesbian or bisexual?" Parents responded using a five-point scale of magnitude that ranged from not at all hard to extremely hard. The researchers asked parents who visited a website with LGB resources to fill out a questionnaire. Huebner and his colleagues studied more than 1,200 parents of LGB youth ages 10 to 25. In addition, the study includes data from parents rarely ever studied, Huebner said, noting that 26 percent of the parents surveyed had only learned their son or daughter identified as LGB in the past month.
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This study is one of the first and largest to survey parents themselves, Huebner said.
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"Two years is a very long time in the life of a child who is faced with the stress of a disapproving or rejecting parent." "Surprisingly, we found that parents who knew about a child's sexual orientation for two years struggled as much as parents who had recently learned the news," said David Huebner, PhD, MPH, associate professor of prevention and community health at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH). The results are important because previous studies suggest parents who have trouble adjusting are more likely to disapprove or adopt negative behaviors that can, in turn, put LGB youth at risk of serious health problems.