Joan Warmbold wrote "I read that article sent by Stephen and found no "conclusive proof" that parenting is not part of the picture relative to sexual orientation. Around 15 to 20 years ago I recall reading excellent research on how the relationship the child has with the same-sex parent was a relevant factor. Specifically, it was usually stated that it was a necessary though not sufficient condition for a son who had a homosexual orientation to have had an abusive, absent or powerless father. How could this sound data that was widely discussed more than a decade ago now be totally ignored and dismissed?" I assume that you're talking about Irving Bieber's psychoanalytically-based work from the 60s (and maybe 1950s?) My understanding is that Bieber's work was rejected because it was based almost exclusively on clinical populations and that studies using more representative samples failed to replicate his findings. To my knowledge, no one outside the psychoanalytic community has bought into Bieber's work since the early to mid 1970s. Ed Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Department of Psychology,
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