Comments about ‘Building emotional health and compassion in young children’

'The overall goal in caring for youth who are or think they might be gay, lesbian, or bisexual is the same as for all youth: to promote normal adolescent development, social and emotional well-being, and physical health. If their environment is critical of their emerging sexual orientation, these adolescents may experience profound isolation and fear of discovery, which interferes with achieving developmental tasks of adolescence related to self-esteem, identity, and intimacy.'

- American Acadamy of Pediatrics
- PEDIATRICS Vol. 113 No. 6 June 2004, pp. 1827-1832