Homophobia Among Teenagers

This article evaluates the issues surrounding homophobic experience by children of same sex parents. It recognized the serious problems behind homophobic bullying of young homosexuals, but with children of same sex parents the issue is not straightforward as it involves debates about the alternative parenting lifestyle. Some studies agree, some disagree that these children are more likely to be bullied. To identify children experiences of bullying, the authors analyze data from previous research, interviews and documentaries in which gay parents report the incidents of homophobia. The data was analyzed using discursive psychology methods with the focus of not only finding out whether the children experience bullying, but how this issue is discussed.

This journal has very useful information surrounding the experiences of homosexual couples and their children. Families have different life experiences with some reporting bullying while others don 't. An important aspect of this article, is how parents sometimes fail to report or minimize the incidents due to unawareness of the psychological impact of bullying, but also the debates surrounding their parenting capabilities. The limitation of this article is that the data collected was interview reports towards the parents and not directly to the children. It also limited to a few numbers of collected …show more content…
This book gave me an inside to different types of issues such as relationships, custody and societal attitudes in general which can be used for my research proposal as a backup of the existence and underlining problems that are often ignored. The limitation of this chapter is that the individuals being studied were very young children, where it is difficult to know whether the parent’s sexual orientation would affect them at a later on. There were also no follow ups after the ten years of