As parents we already know we don’t have a choice. We don’t get to decide when our children will first fall from their bike. We don’t get to decide when they will have their hearts crushed by rejections by others. We don’t get to decide how people will treat them. The best we can do is prepare them for the world they actually live in, not the one we wish for them. I wish I could choose to live in a world where my child isn’t bullied by children raised by narrow minded parents.  I wish I could choose to live in a world where bigoted people did not want my children to cease to exist so they can feel happy about their own life. I wish I could tell my own children “yes my love, you live in a world free of hate, free of ignorance, free of judgement from those unlike you who cannot contemplate a universe that doesn’t align to their narrow interpretation of nature”. But alas, as you and those like you continue to prove, we do not live in such a world.