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Summary: The truth is hard sometimes, but needed!
Review: As an ex-gay, I realize that this book will make Gay people angry. I wish that they could realise the truth presented in this book. Was it easy working out of the Gay lifestyle? NO! Was it worth the effort? YES! The cycle of disfunction had to stop somewhere. I'm glad the Lord saw fit to help me through this so that it wasn't passed on to my children. If I hadn't left the lifestyle (in the Lord's strength), I would have lost the wonderful family I have. They have accepted me back and for over ten years, I have been home where I can feel REAL love. Thank you for writing a book that is not afraid to go against the grain of this society!
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Summary: Advice in futility
Review: Given the obvious fact that people don't choose their sexual orientation, this book results in some downright silly suggestions. If you don't believe me on this, try the following thought experiment (sorry, it doesn't work for bisexual folks):If you are straight, try to fantasize about someone of the same sex. Try your hardest to become homosexual just for a moment. If you are gay, try to become aroused by someone of the opposite sex. Both of you will, by now, have found you're not having much success. Alas, you've both failed to choose a different sexual orientation. Returning to the book itself, the author's main suggestion is to repeatedly tell your children that people choose to be gay. For straight kids, this just ends up training them in intolerance (already quite likely fostered in an evangelical Christian household). For gay kids, this just results in bad relationships with their parents (and possibly years of therapy...). The other advice the author suggests is a paranoid monitoring of gender role development of your children. This is where the book is at its most humorous. The essential suggestion is to be VERY wary of boys playing with dolls or girls playing too much softball. Finally, I would offer an alternation suggestion. Thanks to folks like the author, our society can make life hard for gay folks. If your child appears to be gay, try to be nice to them; they need an understanding parent. Be the accepting, understanding parent. If you insist on being the dogmatic fundamentalist parent that the author asks you to be, the price you'll pay for it is the love of your child.
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Summary: An Ounce of Prevention
Review: I found this book to be very helpful. For many years I have sought to verbalize what this author says about homosexuality. I agree with his concept of what homosexuality is. I feel this book is a refreshing look that puts responsiblity on the individual rather than taking no responsibility for who or what the individual is.
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Summary: the existance of this book disgusts me
Review: i have not read this book nor would i want to. the existance of books like these is the reason why so many young homosexual men and women end their lives because they feel unaccepted and unloved by parents who believe in this rubish. it is a scientific fact that, especially in males, there is a gene that causes homosexuality; to make people believe otherwise is dangerous. *i would give this book no stars if that was a possible choice.
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Summary: Zero Stars for a book with Zero Understanding
Review: I read this one several years ago. My copy is well marked and I have used it to help teens find answers to their questions... Schmierer gives excellent advice on prevention. Having lived through encounters with an aggressive older man who served time for molesting boys... I can confidently say "I wish more people knew what this book explains."
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Summary: Obviously contoversial - but well done
Review: I read this one several years ago. My copy is well marked and I have used it to help teens find answers to their questions... Schmierer gives excellent advice on prevention. Having lived through encounters with an aggressive older man who served time for molesting boys... I can confidently say "I wish more people knew what this book explains."
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Summary: Zero Stars for a book with Zero Understanding
Review: It is books like these that perpetuate misconceptions about gay people. Being gay, FOR SOME, is the "result" of sexual abuse/molestation. But for those people, they are not "gay" in the real sense of the word. Thye are in nedd of counseling and therapy to gain control of the sense of security that was taken form them. Though some people who were abused and molested are "really" gay, it does not mean it was cause-and-effect. There is no way to prevent who one is. But with this book, you can suppress yourslef, narrow your thinking, and oppress your friends/loved ones who are too afarid to tell you about themselves for fear of recognition. This book is about fear and ignorance and a refusal to understand homosexuality/bisexuality as an actuality rather than just a "confused phase". Books like these scare those we love into hiding or drive them to suicide. So while you're reading how to cleanse your son's or daughter's soul, thy'll be crying and contmeplating leaving you- and life- for good. If you truly love your child, deal with them. Don't try to change them. Your job as a parent, friend, or other relative is to love and to support- even when you personally disagree. Your child needs to be loved, not cleansed. Sexuality is not like a drug problem, it is not meant to be treated nor is it meant to go thru rehab. Just deal. Just love.
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Summary: Finally, some truth squeezes past gay propaganda
Review: It is sad that so many individuals still buy into the long ago discredited "research" that supposedly "proves" that homosexuality is genetically based and therefore can't change. Unfortunately, gay activists continue to peddle bad, old research and deny the methodologically sound recent research. The new research (see Robert Spitzer), contradicts their position. Don Schmierer offers good insight and practical advice. If you're worried about your child's gender identity and their future, then read this book!
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Summary: Tendentious
Review: Not well informed. A great wish, but this is a work with a lot of scientific problems. I recommend the readers to take a parsimonious look of this work.
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Summary: It's About Time
Review: Thank God someone is willing to tell the truth about the fact that there really is no "third gender," pointing out instead the tragic family dynamics, childhood cruelties and sexual abuses that can play such a significant part in gender confusion. The author of An Ounce Of Prevention has gently and graciously pointed out specific ways parents and other concerned people can, with both spiritual wisdom and common sense, help direct struggling young people toward hope and healing.
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