This is due to lack of opportunities for parental involvement/lack of breadth on sexuality topics.
How can parents help in averting children from the various forms of influences, particularly aggressive forms of LGBT activism that can be insensitive to long established norms?
Agreed on having foundation at home. Any CMOs can do all sorts of programmes or interventions, but as soon as the children step foot at home, it all goes back to square one, s the life role model they have is at home, the parents. The best Madrasah is at home. While many programmes addresses the need of guiding the children and youth, our CMOs may need to ramp up efforts in outreaching to parents to provide them guidance, strategies and toolkits to guide their children.
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There are many external influences exposed to children, perhaps the underlying foundation should be strengthening of good moral values, consistent parental involvement since young to build a strong communication and relationship with the child.
honestly it is hard to avoid such content as it is easily found in mainstream media nowadays - movies, soc med, etc. however, what would be helpful is to allow children to have an open conversation about it with their parents. let them ask questions. however, parents would also have to be aware of how extensive should the topic be talked about as there must be an injection of islamic values as well during the conversation.
Strengthen children's knowledge of their religion and what is permissible for them in terms of relationships.
parenting class to teach abt lgbtq
Parents need to understand the topic on LGBT adequately before averting their children from its influences. Otherwise difficult as children these days are more up to date with current situation than parents.
Parents to be aware of their own stand regarding this topic first.
Through having more meaningful parent-child conversations. Through finding more teachable moments with child, to bring us discussions on such topics. It's a village effort. Parents may need to direct child to other community resources like the asatizah who engage this at a community level, as the next step.