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nothing. I had to be, my Mom had married a black man. I couldn't possibly be worth anything and I certainly would never amount to anything.

You can chuckle and say "kids will be kids" but that is a major cop-out. Until you have been there, until you have been the subject of a group of kid's taunts and ridicule, until you have been blackened and beat up by a group of your classmates, you have no idea. NONE! So please, don't even try to talk to me about it.

Sure, some of you may have been the unpopular kid in school for a week, a month or maybe even a full year, but you could come back. Your parents were probably of the same race and of opposite sex. How does a kid who is fully aware one of his parents is white and the other is black defend himself against the accusations? How does a kid who knows full well that both his parents are fathers or both are mothers, defend himself? There is no defense. The facts are there and you can only admit to them.

The child can assume the "I'm proud of my Mom and Mom." attitude but that will only drag him deeper. Unless that deviant family settles in an area of the country where deviation in all levels is accepted, the child will have HELL to pay throughout their entire school career.

I had two sisters with me during those early years living with the black family. Since they were living with a black man they must be whores, right? My sisters were angels and were trying desperately to be good Christian girls, but society made them out to be whores. They were constantly fighting off the lowest of character, the most vile of riff-raff. They would never have thought of doing anything even close to what the entire school assumed they must be doing on a regular basis. But, they lived with blacks therefore they must be evil.

I hold firm to the belief that people who mix themselves up in strange situations, two women, two men, black and white and so on, do so out of their own personal needs and desires; their own selfishness. I would never object to that; everybody deserves to pursue that which will make them personally happy. That one essential right however, should consider the wellbeing of any potential children. Nobody has the right to subject any child to the ridicule and pain a school full of "kids" can bestow upon them for coming from a deviant background, nobody!
Adoption rights belong only to the most stable and wholesome of families. A family that reflects, as much as possible, the socially accepted norm for a family. The child would be better off coming from an orphanage than they would coming from a family of two Dads or two Moms. Sure, you can do it. We get it, you have the skills to raise a kid. We understand, just don't do it and forget all about the kid in the process.

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