Be your child’s best ally
Designed for parents, carers and extended family members – whether your child is LGBT+ or not – our LGBT+ Guide for Parents will help you become a better ally.
It answers the most common questions parents ask about LGBT+ topics.
The guide has been produced following consultation with more than 100 parents and LGBT+ young people who shared their experiences with Just Like Us.
Praise for the LGBT+ Guide for Parents and Carers
“As parents you want the best for your children – you want them to feel safe, be confident, and thrive. Any home can welcome in a member of the LGBTQ+ community. There should be no shame in parents not understanding or knowing how best to support their LGBTQ+ children and their straight children to be allies – only shame in parents who don’t endeavour to protect, nurture, and celebrate their LGBTQ+ children. Just Like Us is doing the incredible work of offering our parents’ generation an education that wasn’t available to them when they were young.”
This guide is incredibly useful and vital to help parents support their LGBT+ children. I love that it’s deliberately wide in its scope when it comes to different ways of parenting and different kinds of families. There is no one size fits all, only your way and this guide helps parents to find their way by learning about the experience of other young people and then figuring out what’s best for them and their child.”
“We all love our children and that love is only enhanced when we are able to understand them more and that is why the work of Just Like Us is so vital. Read the guide, give them a hug, be available to them and trust me, they will make your life more colourful and it will all turn out OK in the end.”
“As a LGBT+, disabled parent myself, this guide is invaluable and shows that LGBT+ people come from all walks of life. All parents can and should lead the way in teaching their children to be allies to the LGBT+ community and this guide shows you how.”
“As a parent and grandparent, who is also part of the LGBT+ community, I encourage all families to read Just Like Us’ LGBT+ Guide for Parents. It’s so vital that talking about LGBT+ people doesn’t become a taboo topic at home, and this guide helps lead the way.”
“Being an ally starts at home. I want my kids to grow up in a world where they feel safe, loved, accepted for exactly who they are, knowing that love is love and that standing up for others matters.”
“An incredibly useful guide and resource for ALL parents. I know I’ll definitely be coming back to the books and TV recommendations!”
How Not To Screw Up Your Kids
“Just Like Us have given us all – parents, educators, neighbours, employers, and the wider community – a clear understanding of what LGBT+ allyship REALLY is, and it’s in our actions not just in the words we use. I am already challenging my own inherited stereotypes of those who identify as LGBT+ through well-informed education, so I can truly embody allyship,” says podcaster Dr Maryhan Munt.
Our LGBT+ Guide for Parents author, Amy Ashenden, chats to Dr Maryhan Munt, host of How Not To Screw Up Your Kids.
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