Using herself as an example, childs argues that there is a racial ideology or dominant discourse underlying responses to interracial couples that views interracial couples and interracial relationships as:

I believe the answer is: Deviant

In sociological term, deviant refers to the type of behaviours that are violating pre-existing social norms. Depending on the societies, a certain deviant behaviour could be considered either criminal or non criminal activities and would definitely lower the social status of the People who do it.