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Are you happy interracial marriages are a lot more common now? And if so has gaining acceptance within your family been difficult or easy?

When I was growing up it was very rare to encounter an interracial couple. But they're quite common in my hometown now. How do you feel about that?

I see it as progress and always do my best to be supportive whenever I see a mixed-race couple, especially when I see a white woman with a Black man pushing a stroller with their newborn who is mixed-race. I always smile and want to see their baby (or babies when they've had more than one.)

My ex always wanted to have a big family. We'd always talked about starting a family some day, and she stopped using birth control after we'd had eight years of marriage together without kids. But she never became pregnant, and I asked my doctor for a fertility test which showed that I am infertile. I never produced much ejaculate and it was always translucent and watery but I never had it checked out.

She was heartbroken when I told her the news, but relieved I was open to finding her a sperm donor. I also looked into adoption and discovered we could adopt orphaned children immediately.

When showed her a list of kids we might potentially adopt she was surprised to discover they were all non-white. I told her the white babies were all in demand and there was a waiting list for them. But I felt terrible seeing all the non-white kids that grow up in orphanages. I told her that's not right and I wanted to do something to help these poor kids.

Ultimately she said she was dead-set on conceiving and bearing her own biological children. She was pleasantly surprised by my openness to mixed-race kids because her sister had married a Black man and they had just had their first child. Not everyone in her family was supportive, however.

I told her I'd love any child that came out of her womb. We eventually visited her sister and I met her husband. He was a very tall, masculine Black man and my ex had shown me his pics previously. Having my sister's husband as the father was too weird for all of us. But she eventually met his cousin..
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7 mo
I asked this question in part because America's demographics are changing. Soon white people will constitute less than 50% of the US population and there will be no majority race in the US.

I thought it'd be a great idea to adopt a child or children who are mixed race to place more mixed race children with supportive & healthy families. Dong so would increase their visibility and draw attention to the huge adoption rate disparity between whites, Blacks, Hispanics, and the mixed race
Are you happy interracial marriages are a lot more common now? And if so has gaining acceptance within your family been difficult or easy?
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