Though so, she managed to provide a spirited, loving household for her children. As a single mother, Patricia had to struggle with two or three jobs and continued moving among different towns on Long Island. Living away from her father and having little contact with him were too much for such a little girl like Carey but life had to go on somehow. After her parents' divorce, Carey and Morgan stayed with their mother while Alison stayed with their father. Also, those incidents caused Carey great distress and created tension within the family itself, which then led Alfred and Patricia to get divorced in 1972 when Carey was still three. The bad experiences had caused the whole family to move from place to place around New York area to find more friendly neighborhoods. In addition, her mother Patricia was disowned by her family when she married Alfred Roy Carey.
Predestined to be a multiracial family, the Carey menage were faced with racial insult, hostility and even violence, with crosses being burnt on their lawn, their dogs poisoned, their car blown up, and a shot fired through the kitchen window during mealtime. Carey, the third and youngest, has siblings Alison and Morgan, who were significantly older by ten years. Her mother was a mezzo-soprano New York City opera singer and a freelance vocal coach, while her father was an aeronautical engineer. Mariah Carey was born Mariah Angela Carey in Huntington, New York, on March 27, 1969, to an Irish-American mother Patricia Hickey and an African American/Venezuelan father Alfred Roy Carey.
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