Every study on the subject has found conversion therapy to be ineffective at best, and devastatingly harmful to children. There’s no legitimate right to harm your children with zealotry.
The “Parents’ Rights” folks don’t care. They want to have absolute control over their children in their childhood, want to have a “last word” on their adulthood business, and are extremely offended when someone does parenting differently from them.
Sadly most of them will die alone, because that socially maladaptive behavior is almost never limited to their relationships with their children. They tend to view their friends as possessions too, and eventually every friend knows.
Every study on the subject has found conversion therapy to be ineffective at best, and devastatingly harmful to children. There’s no legitimate right to harm your children with zealotry.
The “Parents’ Rights” folks don’t care. They want to have absolute control over their children in their childhood, want to have a “last word” on their adulthood business, and are extremely offended when someone does parenting differently from them.
They see children as their property. Many of them still think that way even into the child’s adult life.
Sadly most of them will die alone, because that socially maladaptive behavior is almost never limited to their relationships with their children. They tend to view their friends as possessions too, and eventually every friend knows.