There are many factors that can lead to the development homosexual attractions.

• A history of childhood abuse, particularly sexual abuse, incest, or rape (1)
• A failure to develop a secure parent-child attachment in early childhood (2)
• In males, poor father/son relationship due to a father perceived as distant, critical, selfish, angry, or alcoholic; or a mother perceived as controlling, overly dependent, angry and demanding (3)
• In females, a mother who was depressed or psychologically troubled during the firstmonths of her child's life or emotionally distant, critical, or domineering;  a father who deserted the family or was perceived as distant, critical, angry, selfish, or who was an alcoholic. (4)
• Childhood gender disorder, GID, along with failure of parents to encourage child to identify with traits of masculinity and femininity and to form friendships with others of the same sex (5)
• In boys, a lack of peer acceptance, poor body image, poor hand-eye coordination, inability to play popular sports (6)
• A history of being teased or labeled by other children or adults because of talents, temperament, or appearance (7)
• Early exposure to pornography or experimenting with homosexual behaviors

1.  Finkelhor, Child Sexual Abuse:  New Theory and Research (New York: The Free Press, 1984); Peters, & Canrell, (1991). Factors distinguishing samples of lesbian and heterosexual women.  Journal of Homosexuality; Howard, (1991) Out of Egypt. East Sussex, UK, Monarch.; Cameron and Cameron, "Homosexual Parents", Adolescence 31, No. 124 (1996); Shrier and Johnson, "Sexual Victimization of Boys" An ongoing Study of an Adolescent Medicine Cinic Population," Journal of the National Medical Association 80, no. 1 (1988)
2. Bradley, Affect Regulation and the Development of Psychopathology, (New York: Guilford Press, 2000); Bieber, Homosexuality: A Psychoanalytic Study (New York: Basic Books, 1962); West, "Parental Relationships in Mle Homosexuality," International Journal of Social Psychiatry 5 (1959)
3. Fitzgibbons, "The Origins and Therapy of Same-Sex Attraction Disorder," in Homosexuality and American Public Life, ed. C. Wolfe (Washington, DC; Spence, 1999); Friedman, Male Homosexuality (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1988);Saghir and Rboins, Male and Female Homosexuality: A Comprehensive Investigation (Williams & Wilkens Co., 1973)
4. Bradley and Zucker, "Drs. Bradley and Zucker Reply," Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1998); Kenyon, "Studies in Female Homosexuality" Social and Psychiatric Aspects," British Journal of Psychiatry 124 (1974); Bene, Gundlach and Reiss, "Self and Sexual Identity in the Female: A Study of Demale Homosexuals, " in New Directions in Mental Health, edited by Reiss (New York: Grune & Stratton, 1968)
5. Zucker and Bradley, Gender Identity Disorder and Psychosexual Problems in Childhood and Adolescence (New Yrok: Guilford 1995); Friedman, Male Homosexuality (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1988)
6. Fitzgibbons, "The Origins and Healing of Homosexual Attractions and Behaviors," in Fr. John Harvey, The truth About Homosexuality:  The Cry of the Faithful: A Comprehensive View of the Issues Involved in Homosexuality (San Francisco: Ignatius ress, 1986)
7. Bradley, Affect Regulation and the Development of Psychopathology, (New York: Guildford Press, 2000)
8. http://www.nooneisborngay.com/root-causes-of-ssa.html

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