Cohen, Richard

Gay Children, Straight Parents : A Plan for Family Healing / Richard Cohen - Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Books, 2007 - 233 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Personal healing -- Step one: take care of yourself -- Step two: do your own work -- Step three: experience God's love -- Relational healing -- Step four: investigate the causes of SSA -- Step five: utilize effective communication skills -- Step six: make things right between you and your SSA child -- Step seven: discover your child's love language -- Step eight: same-sex parent, display appropriate physical affection -- Step nine: opposite-sex parent, take two steps back -- Community healing -- Step ten: create a welcoming environment in your home, place of worship, and community -- Step eleven: boyfriends, girlfriends, ceremonies and sleepovers -- Step twelve: find mentors and mentor others.

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Parent and child—Religious aspects—Christianity.Sexual orientation.

BV4529 / .C57 2007