Involved in a biracial relationship in college, Renee Rayles became pregnant her senior year. She loved her son's father, but she wasn't prepared to marry him. It's not a "problem" to be pregnant with a biracial child, Rayles says. Those who question the situation, she says, "are the ones with the problem."

Rayles was raised in a way to view the world without racist eyes. So when she was pregnant, she never felt she had to explain to anyone that she was having a bi-racial child. "I love my child more than anyone; therefore, I have no feelings of inadequacy or feelings that I have to discuss it as an issue," she says.

Rayles genuinely understood the importance of maintaining a positive relationship with her ex-boyfriend for the sake of her son. She believed that as a strong, confident woman, she could provide a balanced life for her son, as long as she spoke openly and honestly about his father. "As long as you are keenly aware of how changes in your social environment may affect your child, you can provide a calm, non-disruptive atmosphere in which your child can excel at the same rate as an adolescent in a healthy, two-parent home," says Rayles, author of The Super Sexy Single Mom on a Budget (self-published, 2007).

While Rayles felt confident during her pregnancy, many women find themselves in uncomfortable and painful situations with their families when it comes to interracial and/or interfaith pregnancies.

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