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Paternal Absence As The Strongest Factor Of Male Homosexuality Absence of a Father Figure as the Strongest Factor in Male Homosexuality The condition "homosexuality" commonly evokes a negative impression from most people, especially in conventional societies as the Philippines. For many years most psychiatrists presupposed that homosexuality was a form of mental illness, until 1973 when the American Psychiatric Association (APA) decided to define such condition as a normal behavior. Homosexuals, as described by APA, are "individuals whose sexual interests are directed toward people of the same sex and who are either bothered by, in conflict with, or wish to change, their sexual orientations." As aforementioned, traditional societies consider homosexual relationships illicit and immoral. However, what these societies have not taken into account is that there is a deeper reason than merely having carnal desires toward the people of the same sex underlying the causation of homosexuality among men: a cause rooted in the family. Homosexual orientation depends on the difficulties in the parent-child relationship, especially in the early, formative years of life. When the child suffers from an unmet attachment-need to the parent of the same-sex, the child seeks affection from a member of the same-sex. In the case of the son, the deficit in father, son, homosexuality, masculine, homosexual, male, absence, should, sex, relationship, development, role, paternal, same-sex, noted, son's, psychological, identification, family, boy, people, moberly, having, especially, boys, behavior, been, sexual, process, orientation, nurturance, model, lead, however, homosexuals