The Black and Married with Kids Interview

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What inspired Black and Married with Kids?

We wanted to provide a positive face for black families with a mother and father in the household. We didn’t feel like that was being represented enough.

Who runs the site? Do your children have any input?

Just the two of us, the kids don’t really have any input other than giving us material to write about without knowing it, ha ha.

Do you find that black men and women who don’t have children frequent your site as well as singles?

Definitely, I think it’s a pretty good mix of people that are single and married, with or without kids. Our single readers have a lot to add to our conversations, especially concerning relationships and sometimes they provide questions to us that they want us to present to our married readers to get feedback.

Your site does very friendly movie reviews. Do you have any plans to include books?

In the future we plan to expand beyond movies and music to books, plays, events etc…

What is the weirdest thing or question you’ve encountered running the site so far?

All of the questions have been really good but what probably surprised us the most was the response we got to a user question about why married couples don’t wear rings. We thought it would be a post that didn’t generate much discussion but actually it turned out being a hot topic.

What do you find are some of the most popular features on your site?

Definitely the relationship talk. People can’t get enough of it. Some of the topics we’ve covered are how long is too long to date if you want to
get married, why are there so many single black females, beware of advice, and what to do when no one agrees with your relationship.

Are there any plans to feature a couple of the month or run contests for visitors?

You must be a mind reader! Actually we’re starting that feature this month and will do at least one couple a month. When we first started that was one of the main things we wanted to do, show that there are plenty of successful black couples contrary to what you see and hear about us as a people.

I love how you cover politics, entertainment and deal with relationships. It’s a wonderful mix. Are there any plans to add other categories?

As topics come up we add them, the site is flexible and we want to talk about what’s on the mind of people that are black and married with kids. Sometimes, that’s politics, parenting or relationships and sometimes it’s as simple as if I only have a babysitter for one night, what movie do I want to see and is it worth me dropping twenty bucks a piece on the tickets?

What do you feel are the major benefits that visitors will acquire coming to your site?

We think they’ll get a good perspective of a real couple. We’re not perfect but we are in love and we do love our children. We’re living life
day by day and not taking anything for granted and we want to share that.

What do you say to those who say that you’ve alienated those of non-African American descent?

Most of our topics are not necessarily race specific and we think anyone can learn and identify with a lot of the issues we discuss. But we do want stress that the Black family is still alive and kicking. If we don’t who will?

Thanks to the two of you for a very interesting interview.

Visit Married and Black with Kids at www.MarriedandBlackwithKids.com.

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