1. “What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?”, by Ruth Padawer, follows and interviews numerous families with genderqueer male children around the country in order to bring to light the struggles that genderqueer male children face in society. The author covers how the parents have helped their children to support the theory that supporting genderqueer children causes less stress and raises self-confidence, while conforming your child does the opposite.
2. Supportive parenting is more effective than corrective therapy with regards to the mental health of genderqueer male children. Padawer argues that supportive parenting can help the mental health of genderqueer children while they deal with the everyday stress associated with being a genderqueer male adolescent. Using a supportive parenting style helps bond children to their parents, while it also limits the stress and raises the self-confidence of genderqueer children by allowing them to feel accepted (Silverstein). The stress that genderqueer children face on a daily basis could have a lasting effect on the child …show more content…
To do this, parents cannot be satisfied with creating a safe environment in their homes, but they must educate teachers, administrators, and other children about how they can help prevent anyone around them from feeling uncomfortable or rejected by society (Schindel 59). Adolescence is the period in life where a person must experiment and find their identity. By using corrective therapy, parents are teaching their children that conformity is better than expressing who they are. Padawer found that when the parents switched from corrective therapy to being supportive, their children were much happier and less withdrawn then they had been during corrective
2. Supportive parenting is more effective than corrective therapy with regards to the mental health of genderqueer male children. Padawer argues that supportive parenting can help the mental health of genderqueer children while they deal with the everyday stress associated with being a genderqueer male adolescent. Using a supportive parenting style helps bond children to their parents, while it also limits the stress and raises the self-confidence of genderqueer children by allowing them to feel accepted (Silverstein). The stress that genderqueer children face on a daily basis could have a lasting effect on the child …show more content…
To do this, parents cannot be satisfied with creating a safe environment in their homes, but they must educate teachers, administrators, and other children about how they can help prevent anyone around them from feeling uncomfortable or rejected by society (Schindel 59). Adolescence is the period in life where a person must experiment and find their identity. By using corrective therapy, parents are teaching their children that conformity is better than expressing who they are. Padawer found that when the parents switched from corrective therapy to being supportive, their children were much happier and less withdrawn then they had been during corrective