# Does parenting make people more or less bigoted than before?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 29, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-parenting-make-people-more-or-less-bigoted-than-before/773404 "2016-11-29T19:50:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-parenting-make-people-more-or-less-bigoted-than-before/773404/21 "2016-12-02T05:35:52Z")

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I think it can make one less bigoted. Until my eldest came out as bi, I never knew my wife was homophobic. 9 months later she’s at least personally accepting of our daughter, but it’s been a long row to hoe.

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**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-parenting-make-people-more-or-less-bigoted-than-before/773404/22 "2016-12-02T09:42:29Z")

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Less for sure. After my kids met other kids from different religious and cultural backgrounds (and were besties with some of them) any preconceived notions I had were thrown out the window.

And now my kids are having kids of their own…with every generation the prejudice gets diluted. Unless of course you’re a bigot who passes those genes down to your kids etc etc.

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