Homosexuality In Middle Schools Essay

Today it is not uncommon to see young men and women, as young as middle school to claim themselves to be many new and "trendy" words such as "pansexual" and "bisexual". Progressivly more teens are claiming to be homosexual, just because it is popularized and a way for them to fit into society. Middle school and high school is quite a volneralble time in teens lives. With the excessive use of the internet, they begin to believe that homosexuality is a normal behavior that will help them seek their identity, in which teens are in the lifetime stage of seeking their identity and potentioal, in which many are confused about. Homosexuality in their minds provides them an exciting and modern way of life, that they might not know much about. Ironically

Unfortunatly some mothers and fathers become so obssessive over the idea of homosexuality. Mothers tend to believe that a gay son is "cute" and many celebrities have even claimed to pray that their newborn baby would grow up to be a homosexual man. Another real life example is when a seven year old male child became a transgender female due to the encouragement of the child's parents. A child at that age can not possibly decide their sexual preference without environmental influence, which came from both media and his parents unfortunatley. A child at this age most likely has not even began puberty stages. Therefore homosexuality is becoming a prefered characteristic, not only for teens, but for parents as

However, since homosexuality isn't genetically passed on, and is proven to be environmentally induced, race cannot determine homosexuality, the environment does. Africans have the highest poverty rate in America, which clearly affects their environmental factors. According to Maslaw's Hierarchy of Human Needs, physiological needs becomes before both safety and love and belongings. This shows that if poor African Americans struggle to maintain physiological needs, they cannot fully fulfill their childs psychological needs becasue they are focused on physically helping their children. In poverty driven neighborhoods one or both absences of parents are not uncommon as well. With the lack of physiological needs, psychological needs, and proper parenting, it is more likely for any race in a poor community to become