I plan on showing him alternatives so he doesn't have to learn about them they way that I did.

I moved out of my mother's home when I was 16 and I managed to graduate high school. But I left town two days after graduation and I've only been back three times in 24 years.

Had I not left Alabama, and the US, I would have likely ended up just as bigoted and close minded as most of my family. The ten years I spent outside of the US allowed me to learn a completely different perspective and finally made me realize that my mother and my other family were wrong about so many things.

My boy just turned five a few weeks ago and he's already travelled more than I did by the time I turned 21.