Assignment 14: First Draft of Alternative Viewpoints Paper

There are about 1.5 million lesbian mothers and about 1 million homosexual fathers in the United States and about 6 million children have a parent who is homosexual.  These children report relatively low levels of stigmatization but boys report being excluded more than girls do and girls report being gossiped about more often because of the sexual orientation of their parents.  Vanfraussen found that children in lesbian families are not teased more frequently than children in heterosexual households about such things as clothes or appearance but Tasker and Golombok did find a trend towards children in lesbian families getting teased more about being gay/lesbian themselves.