Does Gay parents mean gay kids?

Okay, this is a pretty loaded subject but I'm interested.....
Most of America is stuck on the idea that if a child has gay parents then they will automatically turn out homosexual themselves.

I recently visited www.familieslikemine.com that is a small site for a book called "Families like mine: children of gay parents tell it like it is." The author has a gay father and yet she is hetrosexual. So..that's one tiny piece of evidence aganist this socail.."myth?"

The site also says: "The same as the odds that children who have straight parents will grow up to identify as gay or lesbian. In other words, having gay or lesbian parents does not mean a child is more or less likely to be lesbian or gay." in the "FAQs About LGBT Families" section part of the website.

Hmm...is this site saying that having gay parents won't influence the child at all in choosing their lifestyle? I dont know about that. Here are a few stories I found from some children of gay parents: http://www.familyresearchinst.org/FRI_homokids.html

Girl (15), Michigan, heterosexual, with gay father and lesbian mother: parents were married and then got divorced. Mom "and C were together about four months... my mom dated for a long time. Then she started seeing N. She was with her for about three years… there was one woman that I was really close to, and when my mom broke up with her, it was really hard. That was when I decided not to get so close to mom and dad’s lovers.... it’s hard having two gay parents, because I can’t really talk to anybody about it.... Sometimes I think about being gay. At first, I thought my mom would love me more if I was gay.... I guess I’m straight right now. I don’t really know how old you have to be to know you’re gay. I guess it’s just when you know that’s what you are.... I would say I’m a feminist…. My mom is telling me about the political part of things…. I’m learning about women’s rights… I’ve gone to… the Gay Pride marches. Most of the adults I know are gay,.... I feel... probably more comfortable [with them] than if I was walking around with friends from school."

Woman (23) California, heterosexual:I just hated everyone hassling me. Generally, lesbians with kids hang with other lesbians with kids.... There are a few times when my mother and I lived alone with each other. She always lived with her lovers, or we had housemates.... when the lover relationship was over, these lovers would leave, saying they wanted to continue a relationship with me. But they never did. When the relationship was over, their relationships with me were also pretty much over. My defense against this was that I never became attached to these women... I put up an emotional wall whenever my mom would say, ‘this is it; this is the relationship that’s going to last forever.’ But I’d predict that it would end in such and such amount of time. I had slim expectations of her being in a wonderfully long, monogamous relationship. Women were always in and out of our lives. I couldn’t let myself feel anything about these women." Had two boyfriends, "Part of the reason I waited so long to get involved with boys is that my grandmother was always pushing me into it." My grandmother "definitely doesn’t want me to be like [my mother].... I don’t want to have kids."

8) Woman (25) Massachusetts, homosexual experience: "......by junior high things were very bad at home... I was discouraged from having male friends, and any female friends were to be made aware that I lived in a lesbian household before I could have them over.... I experienced separatism as a constant level of anger and negativity.... men were called mutants, straight women were considered disowned sisters who wasted woman-energy on men, and other lesbians were sometimes accused of being government spies sent to infiltrate and undermine the community. Anyone who was not like us was evil... [at age 14] I moved out and went to live in a lesbian boarding house.... I also learned to fear the world’s judgment, to see relationships as temporary, to be distrustful, and to withhold communication as a means of self- protection and punishment…. I see evidence of how emotionally detached I’ve become.… L and my mother… explained their parenting style by saying that the patriarchy was pushing me hard in one direction, and they wanted to counteract that pressure by pushing just as hard in the other. I’m lucky I didn’t get squashed. I… was left with no appealing role models. I haven’t known who or what to strive to become.... When I have kids, I hope to do some things differently than she did…"

So, heres a little dose of common sense---> Just because they have gay parents DOES NOT MEAN THEY WILL ULTIMATELY TURN OUT GAY THEMSELVES.