In the eighth grade her parents were divorced and her mother came out as a lesbian. Especially with the whole prop. I'm glad they had the option of a no fault divorce, and joint custody. My parents lived four blocks from each other and that was great. Nixon and her younger sister were both in high school at the same time which caused a problem because although Nixon wanted to share her story with others, her sister did not.
Schools have groups to normalize homosexuality.
Nixon also feels a group here on campus would be not only be supportive for its members, but for the issue of homosexual parenting in general. I heard of a custody battle once where the abusive father wanted to take their child away from the mother because she was a lesbian. Robyn Rork is a senior at College Eight. When she was very young her parents divorced and her father lived three blocks away. In the third grade she learned her father was gay.