Parental Bigotry
Reddit Thread Shows How a Parent's Bigotry Can Hurt Their Child's Friendships and Community
Parents Magazine - August 2022
Parents rally around a gay mom after the mother of her son’s best friend confessed she didn’t want her son to be around her “lifestyle.”
As parents, we want our children to have healthy and happy friendships. We spend so much time driving around to drop off and pick up, coordinating countless playdates, and we even hang out with other adult parents (that sometimes we don't even like) in order to facilitate our children's friendships. We support our children through disagreements, hurt feelings and all the issues that come from hard-to-grasp concepts such as sharing and jealousy. We try to do it all. But sometimes people's biases get in the way.