The Proud Parents Community is part of Starfish
Services Ltd (Charity) and Starfish Health and Wellbeing (CIC) which has a
focus on Mental Health and Wellbeing.
We set up the Proud Parents Community, because of the experience some of our team have had being parents to a LGBTQ+ child and having conversations with other LGBTQ+ parents, about sometimes feeling that we were not able to talk about this aspect of our children’s life, or being able to say that we are Proud of who our children are, who they have become, and the distress this can cause because it does not fit into our culture or community values.
Before our children are born, we start to imagine what their lives will be like and the expectations we have for them, in a way we have it all planned out. We want our children to be liked, loved and to fit with our culture or community norms, anything that may be different to these expectations cause us as parents, to feel frightened or worried and feel that we are not sure what to do, which is absolutely normal, we are just human after all.
We want to support parents through these times, learning from each other, and building a community that embodies being a proud parent and the Joy that can bring.
