Working in the field of education has taught me a lot about families and working with other cultures. I know that it is important to work with others and accept them for how they are. I know that being a teacher, I have seen many different types of family structures.
To answer the questions listed above I have experienced families that feel that they do not want their children to interact with families from different cultures and family structure. I had a family that had two mothers that raised a son, as well as I had a family with two Caucasian fathers and they raised a African American baby boy. I felt that both instances were hard for the other families to adapt to. I feel that I made the situation easy just by having literature and information on ways to bring in families from different cultures in to the environment. I had to get permission from the families to display and read materials that focused on same-sex partner families. I must say that we did lose some families due to the fact that they were uncomfortable with the situation.
I know that some of the families were uncomfortable about the issue and they used negative and homophobic terms to ease the pain. I did have to speak to many of the families to assure them that were using appropriate methods to teach children. I did assure then that we only respect different cultures not bring other children into these beliefs.
After I talked to the families about my plan, most of the other families did trust that I would not harm or force their child to do anything that is not aligned with their family culture.
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