When Your Child Is Gay: Understanding, Reconsidering, Responding

In this show important show, Wesley Davidson, co-author with Dr. Jonathan Tobkes of the book When Your Child is Gay: What You Need to Know, brings her personal parenting experience with her homosexual son as the jumping off point for a broad consideration of handling a child’s coming out as homosexual. Drawing upon her examples and those of many parents and their children, she addresses the denial, the fears, the anger, the guilt, the differences of parental responding, the unexpected strengths, the paths and the resolutions. Adding to the important examples is a wealth of professional expertise offered after each chapter by Dr. Jonathan Tobkes, practicing psychiatrist at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell who frames, expands and makes meaning of the journey so many parents and their children take.