The Pros And Cons Of Misconceptions

Despite the movements that gay people have made in order to achieve equal rights, gays all over the world are often remain in alienated position in society. Misconceptions are views or opinions that are based on false accusations and misunderstandings that can cause negative effects to those that are surrounded by them. Misconceptions are powerful misjudgment that can cause even the friendliest of people to shy away from those enclosed by these far-fetched yet believable rumors. Stereotypes are used to categorize groups under the idea that most if not all of them behave, look, or even dress a certain way. Like many groups who have a wide array of stereotypes and misconceptions, one of them happens to be gay men. There 's a large belief that

Misconceptions are used to conclusion that someone or something is wrong due to faulty thinking or facts that are wrong. This is incredibly huge for this group in particular because many can 't figure out what is and isn 't true when it comes to popular beliefs, but just like many groups there are bad and terrible misconceptions. For example, there 's a huge misconceptions that gay men can not stay in a serious relationship and desire nothing more than to move from partner to partner all for sex, when in reality homosexual and heterosexual couples tend to marry at the same rate. According to a California sample done on a 2003 sample, they stated, “Same sex couples seek to marry at about the same rate as heterosexual couples”. The same sampling company also found out that the percentage of gay men that tend to stay in some form of engagement. Keep in mind that this was down back in 2003 when only Massachusetts gave the okay to allow same sex marriage. Another misconception that people tend to have about gay men, even lesbian women, cannot be good parents due to both being the same sex. According to ALGBTICAL.com, they stated that, “According to the American Psychiatric Association, studies comparing groups of children raised by homosexual and by heterosexual parents find no developmental differences between the two groups of children in four critical areas: their intelligence, psychological adjustment, social adjustment, and popularity with friends. It is also important to realize that a parent 's sexual orientation does not dictate his or her children 's”. In reality, this is nowhere close to being true. A study was done in 2004 on 315 same-sex marriages and 500 children by the Australian University of Melbourne that showed that children raised by these parents tended to be happier and healthier, completely disproving the popular misconceptions