How should parents react when their child comes out as gay

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Loving, caring, angry, distant, parents can be a lot of things when their child comes to them to give them the news about a life event. With one always having the freedom to love who they want, without any judgment, it is a tricky situation for parents when their kid walks up to them and lets them know that they’re gay. With the key to any successful relationship being communication and with silence sometimes being louder than words, what to say and not to say in a situation and how to react is very well the making or the breaking of a parent-child relationship. With Inputs by Sherene Aftab, founder of Serene Hour Counselling & Career Advice Consultancy, and Mehezabin Dordi, clinical psychologist, Sir H N Reliance Foundation Hospital

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