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Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum: God Loves Queer People

By Sharon Kleinbaum — 2014

12:56 min

Raising LGBTQ+ Kids

Your child just came out to you. Now what? Here are some things to keep in mind. 

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Christy Olezeski
2022
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Coming Out, Coming Home: Helping Families Adjust to a Gay or Lesbian Child

The discovery that a child is lesbian or gay can send shockwaves through a family. A mother will question how she’s raised her son; a father will worry that his daughter will experience discrimination.

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Michael LaSala
2025
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The Changing Ways Parents React to Their Kids Coming Out of the Closet

A conversation with the sociologist Mary Robertson on how some queer youth are pleasantly surprised with the lack of family drama the news causes.

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Natalie Escobar
2018
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Advice to Parents on Raising a Happy and Healthy LGBTQ Child

When many LGBTQ people look back on their childhood, we remember a mixture of confusingly feeling different; being harassed for our sexual identities; and realizing how important our parents, teachers and other authority figures were in either helping us through those years—or making our lives worse.

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Steven Petrow
2020
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Tips for Parents of LGBTQ Youth

In many ways no different from their peers, LGBTQ youth face some unique challenges that parents often feel unprepared to tackle.

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Renata Arrington Sanders, Errol Lamont Fields
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Teaching Your Children About God: A Modern Jewish Approach

Many parents find it easier to talk to their children about sex and other intimate matters than to answer questions about God, prayer, good, and evil. In fact, parents may feel they don't know the answers to such questions for themselves, much less for their young children.

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David J. Wolpe
1994
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Emma and Mommy Talk to God

Emma isn't quite sure who God is and what it means to believe in Him. Through loving talks with her mother, Emma realizes that God is always with her to help her find her way.

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Marianne Williamson
2006
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