[Crystal31920]

I think in many cases it’s not that the parents are (consciously) racist so much as they are trying to protect their children from possible unhappiness. Many well-meaning parents are afraid their child will suffer discrimination and unhappiness from being in an interracial marriage. This applies particularly to daughters. Since women bear the main burdens of ‘making a relationship work’, are the primary parents of any children who result, and are the ones to suffer when a relationship breaks up, many otherwise liberal parents don’t want their daughters to take their chances on an ‘unconventional’ and possibly difficult relationship. I know this was my own father’s rationale for disapproving of an interracial relationship I had a while ago. He is a good, liberal, non-racist man but in his eyes, if I married this man I would be making life unnecessarily hard for myself. (I disagreed, incidentally. Marriage is hard no matter if it’s with someone of the same race or not.)

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Name : Crystal31920, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Pagan, Age : 30's, City : Oakland, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Office manager/writer, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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