Hypoxia and Medicine

Gender Confusion?...?

A two year old boy who has a chronic medical condition sleeps in a separate bed in the same room with his mother. He does not dress or play in the room, but just sleeps there so he could be heard by the mother at night. The father of the child thinks that this arrangement will cause "gender confusion" and make the boy gay. The parents are divorced. Mom wants the boy to be older and for his medical condition to be more stable before moving him in with his older brother, who is now seven. Is the father full of it, or is the mother going to cause the child to be confused about his gender?

Public Comments

1. The father is not just full of it, he's overflowing. The litle boy needs to stay with the mother, until they are both (mom & son) ready for him to go into another room. Dressing, playing, or any of that can be done in that room, too, NOTHING they can do that's in the normal scheme of a day can cause gender confusion. Gender confusion and homosexuality are completely different, anyways. Gay men don't feel like they are women. Jeesh. Daddy's playing games here.
2. the father is totally full of it. whoever heard of such a thing?
3. The father is full of it.
4. You can't make a kid become gay!!! Mom is doing the right thing by having her son in the room with her if he has a chronic medical condition! Tell the day to quit being such a homophobe!!
5. The father is "full of it!" What a great mom!
6. the boys only two he could sleep in the same room as his mom. nothing wrong with that
7. youh can't 'make' a person gay: it is believed && accepted that people are born that way. but as for gender confusion, if he does go into his brother's room, a baby moniter might be handy. maybe he should try to do like play dates with other kids? but i guess that depends on his condtion && age. the mother might want to take him to a daycare, or, a hospital daycare if necessary so he can get aqquainted with other children && thus could not be possibly confused about his gender.
8. the father is full of it. how can it possible cause gender confusion?? even if he slept in the same bed it wouldn't cause gender confusion . You can't MAKE someone gay especially not a 2 year old.Would the father prefer if the child died or got sick from his condition?? or sleep in a separate bed in the same room as her?!!
9. The father is wrong. There is no scientifuc evidence that suggests a person becomes gay through the way they grew up.
10. The father of the child doesn't know what he is talking about. It is not environment that can cause a person to be gay. Science has proven that homosexual tendencies are more genetic than environmental. I'm sure there are web sites that go into a more in depth review of homosexual tendencies that you may want to check out. Just off the top of my head maybe: www.gayrights.org or com. Don't quote me on that web site though. Hope you work out your differences. Thanks for the 2 points!
11. The father is an idiot. having a caring and loving mother does not make anybody gay. Humans traditionally slept all in a room throughtout history.
12. That should not have an effect on his identity at all.
13. I think being around this father would be more harmful than the child sleeping in the mother's room. What a goof ball he is! "Gender confusion," Puhleeeeese!
14. The father is way out of line. The child could be doing all the parts of every day living in the room and still it would have nothing to do with gender identity or make him gay. No wonder she got a divorce.
15. A two year old sleeping near or with his mother will not "turn him gay". Either he is born gay, or he is born straight. His environment has nothing to do with it. I would move him out of mom's room by age 4 or he may become sexually fixated on her, which will no doubt create havoc later in life.
16. The father is full of bull. That's the same as saying that if they sit in the same room and watch tv, it will make the boy gay. Sounds like he's got some issues of his own he needs to address.
17. the father is under the impression that you can turn someone gay or straight. his son's health and medical condition should be his #1 concern, not whether the son grows up to like men. wow, what a confused, self-absorbed, petty father. basically, he just doesn't want to be the father of a "turned gay" son, because that would be embarrassing for HIM. you can't turn someone gay, that's ridiculous. i hope you're not dating this loser. he sounds like a little brat.