I just want to say that I am white and my husband is hispanic and he is ABSOLUTELY the BEST thing that has ever come into my life and we have 2 beautiful bi-racial boys and we have been together going on 14 years now.When we first got together my dad did not approve, he grew up in the deep south and they believed that each should marry their own.He was constantly saying mean things about my husband (that he was a loser and would never amount to anything etc.etc.) well let me say that our oldest son (who's 15) is not his biological child even though he is hispanic,he was mine from a previous relationship.Well my husband and I got together when our son (I say our because he adopted him)was only 8 mos. old,and he has been there with him through a lung surgery when he was 15 mos. old, 2 bouts of brain cancer,at the age of 6 and again at 7,taken care of him when he was sick from medications and was there for all of his medical stuff when good ole' mom thought she was going to lose it!! His real father walked away when he was 5 mos. and never looked back. Anyway my father and I ended up fighting about 3 mos. after we got married and I just told my father that if he couldn't accept my husband then he didn't need to see me or my son anymore,we didn't talk for about 1 year.Then after our son was treated for his brain cancer my father actually came up to my husband and apologized right there in the hospital and asked my husband to forgive him for being so stupid,that after seeing how much my husband loved our son,that he was one heck of a man for coming in and stepping up and raising and supporting another man's child while loving him the same as our other son(2nd one is ours together)and never once complaining.Now my father and my husband are very close,in fact a few years ago my husband,myself,our two boys and my father all went to Arkansas to see my grandfather(my dad's dad the one that raised him to be racial)and boy was my husband nervous!! But my grandfather told my husband "I'm not like that anymore,life's too short I was wrong in the way I brought up my boys."And I'm glad we made that trip because my grandpa died 6 mos.later,but my boys were happy that "They got to meet great grandpa and he took them to McDonald's and bought them their 1st Big Mac!!
But I say go with your heart,eventually your family will come around and if they don't think about it,Is that really the influence you want around your children? Do you want someone who deep down may not really love your children because of what's on the outside,not on the inside.
P.S. Sorry about my book!!!