![]() The family that we have built for ourselves requires a kind of radical honesty. A brown man and a white man with two little black boys is going to attract looks, especially because they’re the two best looking children on the planet. I am conscious of people looking at our family in a different way, and I don’t blame them for that. It is incumbent on my husband and I to raise our boys with an understanding of the 50 percent of the planet who are different from - they are. I exist within a nuclear family where there are no women. A year or so after we were married legally, we became parents. And it was much more romantic than it sounds. ![]() We got married in the parking lot of the Santa Cruz City Hall. I met my husband on the world’s most successful blind date. Your task as a parent is to repeat and repeat and repeat yourself, to really inculcate in your child your own - the values you want them to hold. And anybody who is raising a child is going to nod their head when they hear that. RUMAAN ALAM, Author, “Rich and Pretty”: Subtlety doesn’t work for children. Alam’s latest book is called “Rich and Pretty.” He speaks to us about family as an experiment. ![]() Tonight, we hear from author Rumaan Alam. ![]() JUDY WOODRUFF: Now to our Brief But Spectacular series, where we ask interesting people to share their passions. ![]()
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