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Originally Posted by Nyororin
I went to school with two girls who had gay parents. One`s father came out of the closet when she was a baby - mom left, and she was raised by her father and his boyfriend. (A relationship which really, in my eyes, should have been seen as a marriage.) No one ever made fun of her. In fact, she always said pretty much no one even knew about it unless they were close friends with her. In grade school, other kids don`t really care. When you`re older, how much do you talk about your parents to your classmates?
She was never bullied as far as I know.
The other had been adopted by a lesbian couple. She called one mom and one by name. Everyone sort of assumed one was her mom and one was her aunt but if asked she volunteered the information willingly that they were both technically "mom". Again, no bullying that I ever heard about.
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You're probably right. It's like me when I was in my last three years of Elementary School and I started a new school after moving. People thought my mother was dead or something because they rarely saw her since my father always attended my school functions. I never really talked about my parents, so no one would know. And to be honest, I didn't even know that's what the kids thought, until a friend in middle school mentioned to me, that they thought I had a single-parent home.