Peer pressure can be difficult for some persons to cope with. And whether that peer pressure comes as a result of living an alternative lifestyle or just from being different, it can make day to day living rather stressful.
Especially if the situation one is facing becomes a bit intense to where it is also having an effect on the home front as well. What one then has is stress from both sides. Stress from his/her peers and stress from one's parents and or siblings. And if one is supposed to feel most comfortable at home, how can that be accomplished if there is stress there as well?
Apparently not all parents are as welcoming or pleasant to their children if they, the parents, realise one of their kids has a flaw they are unwilling to accept or live with. For some parents will not accept any child who is deemed less than perfect.
And when the affected offspring realises he/she is not being shown the same kind of attention or love his/her other sibling, the one who seems perfect, is receiving, a change takes place within that individual.
Sometimes, if some parents take matters a bit far by say, disowning or disinheriting such a child because of his/her imperfections, alternative lifestyle etc, and the child feels pressured into taking a course of action, his/her action might not be something one would expect.
One individual might choose to run away from a home where he/she no longer feels welcome, while another might take his/her own life. Others who can better cope, may linger around until he/she is of legal age to move out on his/her own.
The end result might be different for all concerned. And if a child displays that he/she is concerend about a lifestyle a parent deems to be inappropriate, I am not saying you should accept the child's choice, but do continue to love him/her.
For, you never know, perfections and imperfections aside, the child you may save from running away from home or taking his/her own life might be your own. And for those of you who are too concerned about being perfect?
Nothing reeks of imperfection more than having a kid who is so unhappy that he/she has to run away from you, the parent, or take his/her own life because he/she feels inadequate, neglected and unloved by his/her parents.
