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/^t/This conviction, which was drifting around somewhere in the child's psyche, may suddenly resurface when he reaches his teenage years. During these years, a person is very influential and totally unstable emotionally, and his parents' situation may somehow affect his own sexual preferances. Thus, meaning no evil absolutely, the adoptive parents have influenced their child, without giving him any choice or possibility to "try out" other options.