Gender Roles

I found this article that I thought was very interesting that deals with gender roles of children who are raised by gay parents. I think society has an idea of how they think the children would grow up and how they would behave but after reading this article I learned that those ideas are false. The studies that have been done dealing with children raised in homosexual homes versus heterosexual homes prove that is not that a great different in how the children behave. Most studies have been done with lesbian mothers because there are fewer studies with gay fathers but however the results of these studies have been very interesting. Males who were raised by lesbian mothers tend to be less aggressive and more caring, and they are not forced to fit that typical male role of being tough and strong and playing agressive sports. Females raised by lesbian mothers tend to be fit the typical stereotype for being girly-girls because their mothers have no preference whether they play a sport or take dance classes and are also more likely to want to become doctors, lawyers, engineers and astronauts. Females however are more likely to be sexually adventurous while males are more likely to be chaste. These are just a few aspects of the gender roles that children take when they are raised by gay parents and this article goes more in depth about all aspects of the children's lives.