Though there are exceptions to every instance, most parents do genuinely love their children. Children are parents’ lives; they’re an extension of themselves, created from their own flesh and blood. And some parents have star children: polite, hard working, and well rounded. And these parents adore their children as the light of their days.
So I don’t understand why when these parents find out that their children are gay, it goes from unconditional love to irrevocable hate. I can understand the dislike, misunderstanding, and aversion to homosexuality. I may be hurt or offended when I find out people are homophobic, but they’re entitled to their opinion as long as they don’t judge me based solely upon that aspect of my being.
But I cannot understand how a parent can hate a child after loving them so deeply simply because they learn of their sexual nature. Most likely, that child has been aware of their sexuality for a long, long time before getting the guts to confess it to friends, let alone parents, and I say this because I know it to be true. So that parent loved that child even when they weren’t heterosexual. Their child never changed, just the parents’ knowledge of their child. But they still manage to hate them, just because of who they happen to be attracted to.
This is just one of those, “what they don’t know can’t hurt them,” situations. Because them knowing can hurt the most, and it’s a chance that just isn’t worth the risk sometimes.
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