Reply #6: Math is NOT my strong suit. Plus...

[Smarmie Doofus]

... I may have botched the wording:

>>>I think the stats are 25% probability...

... of a glbt kid in a given nuclear family.>>>

My source for the 25% figure is a pflag presentation I attended last year.


HOWEVER, what I think he actually said was 25% of FAMILIES are likely to contain ONE glbt member. (Not "25 % in a given family.")

So... if you have the average 2.5 kids in a family..... multiply that by four.... you get 10 kids. One of which kids will be glb or t.

One in ten. That checks out.... yes?

He ( pflag guy) might even be bit high, since the prevailing estimates in the general population have usually been *between* 5-10%.