How to Support LGBTQ+ Children - Child Mind Institute
WEBJun 6, 2024 · When a child is coming out as LGBTQ+, the most important thing for them to know is that their family supports and loves them. As a parent, you might worry about whether they will be accepted. But it’s important to stay positive around your child and make sure they know they can count on you.
Tips for Parents of LGBTQ Youth | Johns Hopkins Medicine
WEBIn many ways no different from their peers, LGBTQ youth face some unique challenges that parents often feel unprepared to tackle. To help, Johns Hopkins pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist Errol Fields shares steps you can …
How Families with LGBTQ Kids Protect Their Children from …
WEBMar 19, 2024 · Hostility toward LGBTQ kids, enshrined in hundreds of new bills, has put families with such children under unprecedented threat, raising risks of suicide and physical attacks
What to Do When Your Child Comes Out as LGBTQ+
WEBSep 22, 2021 · Parents of children who may be questioning or declaring their identities as LGBTQ must be even more vigilant in making sure that their children feel supported, as LGBTQ youth have...
The Parents Guide to Supporting LGBTQIA+ Kids
WEBMay 11, 2023 · The Parents Guide to Supporting LGBTQIA+ Kids. It’s a duty for all parents and caregivers to affirm, support, and lift up LGBTQIA+ kids and families—here are tools, articles, tips, and...
Behaviors of Supportive Parents and Caregivers for LGBTQ Youth
WEBMay 31, 2022 · Among transgender, nonbinary, and gender questioning youth, the five most frequently cited supportive actions taken by parents or caregivers were: 1) being welcoming and kind to youths’ LGBTQ friends or partner (s) (69%), 2) talking with youth respectfully about their LGBTQ identity (57%), 3) supporting youths’ gender expression (51%), 4) …
Mental Health Challenges of LGBTQ+ Kids - Child Mind Institute
WEBFeb 29, 2024 · You may be aware that LGBTQ+ kids are at higher risk than other kids for developing mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. They also have higher rates of contemplating, attempting, and dying by suicide.
How to support your LGBTQ child’s mental health - CNN
WEBJun 29, 2022 · The acronym LGBTQ is short for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer, or questioning. The term also includes non-binary people. Support from parents and caregivers can make...
Parenting for LGBTQ+ children’s mental health | UNICEF
WEBMay 18, 2022 · You can prioritize the safety and mental well-being of LGBTQ+ children and young people; you can build knowledge about LGBTQ+ identities through outreach to families, communities and in school curriculums; you can ban conversion therapies that deny our identities.
LGBTQ+ youth - Humanium
WEBFamilies and instructors who embrace LGBTQ+ youth can protect them from drugs, unprotected sex, and suicidal behaviours (Fadem, 2022). Parents may experience a range of emotions that prevent them from assisting their children upon learning their children’s internal sexual orientation and gender.