SFSU's Family Acceptance Project Releases Paper On LGB Youth Risk Factors
by: Autumn Sandeen
Mon Dec 29, 2008 at 19:00:00 PM EST
http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8842Groundbreaking Research on Family Rejection of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Adolescents Establishes Predictive Link to Negative Health OutcomesSan Francisco State University 's Family Acceptance Project released a report which is highlighted in Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). The article, entitled Family Rejection as a Predictor of Negative Health Outcomes in White and Latino Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young Adults was posted today (December 29, 2008).
From the Prevention Researcher blog article Supporting the Families of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth on the study:
For this article, the researchers used a retrospective study design with 224 white and Latino LGB young adults ages 21 to 25 years. Participants were evenly distributed across gender and ethnicity, and all lived in California. The study measured how specific family behaviors that parents, caregivers, and guardians use to reject their adolescent's LGB identity (between ages 13-19), relates to negative mental health, substance use and misuse, and risky sexual behavior in young adulthood.
