Uncorrected Personality Traits

Reading this (Is My Child Becoming Homosexual?), I'm reminded of this classic Robyn Hitchcock song:

Uncorrected personality traits
that seem whimsical in a child
may prove to be ugly in
a fully grown adult.

Lack of involvement with the father,
or over-involvement with the mother,
can result in lack of ability
to relate to sexual fears,

and in homosexual leanings,
narcissism, transexuality
(girls from the waist up
men from the waist down),
attempts to be your own love object.

Reconcile your parents to you
by becoming both at once!

Even Marilyn Monroe was a man,
but this tends to get overlooked by our
mother-fixated, overweight, sexist media.

So:
Uncorrected personality traits
that seem whimsical in a child
may prove to be ugly
in a fully grown adult.

If you give in to them
Every time they cry
They will become little tyrants
But they won't remember why
Then when they are thwarted
By people in later life
They will become psychotic
And they won't make an ideal husband or wife

The spoiled baby grows into
the escapist teenager who's
the adult alcoholic who's
the middle-aged suicide.

Oy. So:

Uncorrected personality traits
that seem whimsical in a child
may prove to be ugly
in a fully grown adult.

-- Uncorrected Personality Traits

Of course, Robyn is clever, ironic and funny, not scary, unlike the nuts who want to send your kids to fag camp.