The child not only suffers from a low self image, he is also taught, and believes, that he has in some way invited this attention so he must really be gay. Basically this is the product of an abdicating father and over-involved mother who seeks to get her emotional needs met by the child instead of the father. There are a variety of circumstances that produce feelings of disapproval, lack of love, lack of protection and abandonment, that point a child in the direction of homosexuality. Some of those ways are real and some are imagined. This brokenness at such an early age leads to an extreme need for love, affection, affirmation, and acceptance by a same sex role model or parent.
Parents play a definite role in the creation of a homosexual.
This is not to say that either parent directly or knowingly pushed the child into this sin pattern. There are as many different levels of homosexuality as there are levels of any other sin. Parental involvement could have been anything from perceived neglect or disapproval to the most awful sexual molestation. I say this not to relieve you of accountability before God for whatever part you played in the past, but to let you know where your responsibility ends and your child's begins. It is not unusual for a child caught up in this sin to try to control his parents with guilt and blame, as a means of justifying his own actions.