Tukwila, WA--Local parents, Jeanine Goddard, 32, and Ahn Tran, 34, are delightfully satisfied with the multiracial specimen they've created. When the two got engaged in 2010, they were nervous about the prejudice they might face as an interracial couple, especially among the older generations in their conservative families. But now that they have just welcomed their first child into the world, their fears have been assuaged by the many positive compliments received by family, friends, and random strangers about their multiracial offspring's cuteness.
"When the cashier at Safeway assured me that mixed babies are the cutest kind of baby, I knew I had made the right choice to reproduce," said Goddard, visibly proud of her accomplishment. According to Tran, Goddard's Vietnam-born husband, "Friends shower us with compliments about its almond-shaped eyes and adorable freckles, saying it could be a model someday with such an 'exotic' look."
While enjoying the attention they have garnered with their first piece of progeny, Goddard and Tran are already receiving demands from coworkers, community members, and childcare workers to produce a multiracial sibling. "I can't wait to see what the next one looks like! More Asian or more white? It's like the Magic 8 Ball of baby making!" commented an unknown passerby, stroking child number one's hair.
The happy new parents never could have imagined such a positive response, given their own families' homogeneous blood pools. Affirmed Goddard, "It almost makes up for my grandma's deriding comments that our baby looks 'totally Asian'."
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