Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
CLINICAL PERSPECTIVESA Support Group for Parents of Gender-Nonconforming Boys
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Child Focus
Gender Confusion. Parents often use cliched statements with the intention of encouraging the child to behave in a “gender-appropriate” way. These may confuse the young child, who is struggling to understand the meaning of his interests and identifications in the context of his biological sex. A young child may conclude that if he likes “girl's stuff” or if he does not like “boy's stuff,” he must be (totally or partially) a girl. In contrast, statements that point out that stereotypical female
Parent Focus
Grieving. In coming to terms with their child being different from what they had envisioned, parents go through a grieving process. They also grieve the loss of an idealized heterosexual marriage-and-family future for the child. Adoptive parents may recapitulate the grief they first faced when they dealt with their fertility problems. A mother reflected: “First you accept that you are not going to give birth, you give it up, you grieve over it and eventually accept it. Then you are hit again;
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The authors acknowledge group members who provided examples and supported the writing of this report.