detachment from the father may only lead to the effeminacy of the son, and effeminacy need not lead to homosexuality. Harvey noted Richard Green who cites several retrospective studies linking boyhood cross-gender behavior, characteristic of effeminate, with late adolescent and adult homosexual orientation. Studies have shown that a large percentage of the boys who exhibited a "gender non-conformity" turned out to be homosexuals when they grow up. From this, it can be inferred that most, if not all, homosexual men exhibited a cross-gender behavior during their younger years in life. Why would the son seek homosexual relationship when he experienced such difficulties in his relationship with his father? As defined by Moberly, Harvey noted, homosexual relationships are based on the drive to fulfill the unmet attachment-need of the son with his father. "What the male homosexual seeks is what he should have received from his relationship with his father," Moberly stresses. Having referred to Bieber's major study of homosexual males, Moberly noted that where the man's father has been detached or hostile to the son, the homosexual partner was "invariably identified with the father who had been hated and feared." This only confirms that a male homosexual chooses a partner who is characteristic of his father. From this, it can be noted that there is an attempt to complete the process of identification with a masculine figure. This shows that, having her theory based on a major study, Moberly's assertion that homosexuality is the son's form of adaptation in the absence of the father is substantial. Having had discussed the father's part in the sex role development and the son's homosexuality as his form of adaptation in the father's absence, that paternal absence is the strongest factor in the causation of male homosexuality, especially in the Philippine society, should be established.Ana Maria Badua conducted an investigation in B...
