Considering Alternative Explanations for the Associations Among Childhood Adversity, Childhood Abuse, and Adult Sexual Orientation: Reply to Bailey and Bailey (2013) and Rind (2013).

The authors discuss the effect of child abuse on same-sex sexual orientation in response to a commentary about their article about the use of childhood adversity as a determinant of same-sex sexual attraction, partners and identity. They conducted simulations to test the hypothesis that a genetic factor predicts parental difficultues such as divorce, mental illness, poverty and drug use. They emphasize the impact of childhood adversities as non-normative controls.