Rating: 
Summary: Sensible, Honest and Compassionate
Review: This is an outstanding guide for concerned people who find out that their loved one (child, spouse or friend) has embraced a homosexual identity. Anita Worthen is the mother of an HIV-positive homosexual man who has struggled with her feelings about her son's sad situation. Bob Davies has himself left homosexuality. The two of them write in a knowing and understanding way about this topic. Their approach offers hope and healing for both the homosexual and his or her family and friends. The authors weave personal vignettes with sound advice, backed up by both religious and secular resources.I highly recommend that you read this book for yourself. With all due respect, some of the negative reviews you will read here are blatantly dishonest. One reviewer asserts that Anita Worthen advises parents to kidnap their gay children. But in fact, Mrs. Worthen advises AGAINST such a drastic step. She mentions "kidnapping" her son as an emotionally inappropriate action to have taken. Mrs. Worthen also recounts about how she attempted to maintain a close relationship with her son and male partner, cooking meals for them on a regular basis when illness made it hard for them to care for themselves. It is very disappointing, but also revealing, that the negative reviews of this book are so misleading and dishonest.
Rating:
Summary: Sensible, Honest and Compassionate
Review: This is an outstanding guide for concerned people who find out that their loved one (child, spouse or friend) has embraced a homosexual identity. Anita Worthen is the mother of an HIV-positive homosexual man who has struggled with her feelings about her son's sad situation. Bob Davies has himself left homosexuality. The two of them write in a knowing and understanding way about this topic. Their approach offers hope and healing for both the homosexual and his or her family and friends. The authors weave personal vignettes with sound advice, backed up by both religious and secular resources. I highly recommend that you read this book for yourself. With all due respect, some of the negative reviews you will read here are blatantly dishonest. One reviewer asserts that Anita Worthen advises parents to kidnap their gay children. But in fact, Mrs. Worthen advises AGAINST such a drastic step. She mentions "kidnapping" her son as an emotionally inappropriate action to have taken. Mrs. Worthen also recounts about how she attempted to maintain a close relationship with her son and male partner, cooking meals for them on a regular basis when illness made it hard for them to care for themselves. It is very disappointing, but also revealing, that the negative reviews of this book are so misleading and dishonest.
Rating: 
Summary: Promotes religion over understanding
Review: This sad attempt of a book was a waste of time to read. It promotes religion and judgement behind the gay friend/family members back. NOT A BOOK ON UNDERSTANDING AND COPING AT ALL, but a not so vague attempt to encorage you to try to get your gay friend to "change". What a joke.
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