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Yes but...
Posted by lgsinmyheart on 2008-August-23 09:01:27 EDT, Saturday
In reply to Come out to your children, do or don't ? posted by Sancho Panza on 2008-August-22 09:06:33 EDT, Friday
I don't have children, never have had and never will have.
I also think that being a paed is too big a secret for your children not to know about you...
That said...
I can only see two ways to come out to your own children in such a way that it minimises risks, allows you a better relation with them and fulfills your goals of making your children more open and more aware of the issues regarding us.
First would be to never come out "as such", but simply having it openly assumed and openly accepted at home since day one - that they know you're a paed as far back as their memory allows. It would have to be dealt with like any other differences you might think of that are present in society - families of different races, religions, language backgrounds, and so on, not just where your sexual orientation is different. And you would have to make it clear before the age of random exofamilial socialising that this is a piece of information that cannot be lightly dealt with. But otherwise, that you are probably no different to any other given parent.
The time of course has passed for this option in your case.
The second way would be to come out already in their early legal adult years, or at least late teens - where any aoa issue has already faded away and where they have a grasp of their own independent of familial relations, regarding social relationships in general.
The time for this hasn't come yet in your case.
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