One of the hardest things a parent can experience is a child's confession of homosexuality. The pain felt is a combination of disapproval, shock, repulsion and fear. One of the most painful duties I have encountered is helping parents understand and co-operate in the control and eventual healing of this brokenness.
Some homosexual behavior begins because of sexual molestation.
Self-esteem and personal worth are lost due to the degradation of molestation. 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.