Amy Seguin, TX
Why marry out of your race?
Suella Torres Deming, NM My husband and I will be celebrating our 5 year anniversary in February. We have a daughter together and 7 more mixed kids between us. Our kids are Afro Mexican Americans. With the exception of my oldest who is a third white. The range in colors is vanilla to caramel to […]
Black babies cost less to adopt
Michelle P. Covington, LA We decided to adopt a child years ago. We are not infertile, but felt like it was a great way to add to our family, while loving someone who needed us. Our research showed us that African-American children, especially boys, are the least adoptable in our country. We decided to adopt […]
Yes, they really are my children.
Corrie Bugby Murray, UT I am a Caucasian woman who adopted three African American sons. I love them. I cherish everything about them. And I hate it when people assume that they aren’t my children. Like the woman who asked me, “Don’t you think you’d love a biological child more?” ?! I have come to […]
Why did you hide our heritage?
Grace Ostrum, PA. Didn’t know I was Native American Indian until I was 38 years old. My family still won’t talk about it.
Here come the white people….Family!
Robbie Wolfe Chester, VA My mom and us, her children, were noticeably “lighter” than the rest of my family, which were very brown to dark-skinned people. Yet, that’s how we were greeted on Sundays and family gatherings, in front of other family members, friends and invited guests. Running joke? As I got older, I secretly […]
When did your family come here?
Mitzi Zohar Outside USA I would reply that my mother’s mother was sixth generation Canadian. Growing up in a wealthy WASP enclave my questioners wouldn’t leave me alone until I had admitted to having three Eastern European Jewish grandparents. Having buttonholed me the questioners would lose interest.
Family love is bigger than race
Sandra McDonaugh Portland, OR
Gang member in my family??? Noooo!!
Anonymous Morris, MN
Interracial marriage: My kids are gorgeous!
Norene Lealamanua Portland, OR My very white family was confused by my choices until they fell head over heels for my exceptionally smart, beautiful brown children!
We don’t match. Yes, we’re family
Deb Venzke Iowa City, IA As an interracial family, we sometimes get quizzical looks from strangers. This could be our T-shirt motto.
Our family is Irish, Indian, Black
Diana Lockhart Powder Springs, GA
Black dad, white mom, endangered son
Mary Bratton Submitted via: NPR’s Talk of the Nation
I wish race mattered to NOBODY!
Mary Palmer Manahawkin, NJ I am a white woman married to a white man. We are the parents of two biological sons and one adopted bi-racial daughter, all of them grown.
White parents. Asian daughter. My family.
Anonymous Submitted via: NPR’s Talk of the Nation
Not my problem, now my kid’s
Courtney M Oklahoma City, OK I’m white. I was raised in a military family that traveled everywhere and was taught to love what makes us different. Then I had children with a man who isn’t white. Now, race has taken on a whole new meaning. Explaining race issues to them is painful…for so many reasons.
Transracial adoptive family = living multiple realities.
Submitted via Twitter: @steveped
Family’s racism replacing, old pictures erasing.
Stacey McMackin Richmond Heights, MO
How do you treat your family?
Gina LA I am starting to reject the ideas of “Us” and “Them” at all levels, although I never thought I’d feel that way. It’s a journey. When I say “How do you treat your family?” it’s an acknowledgement that we are all genetically related. If you accept that idea, it’s only natural to ask […]
Nothing was handed to me EVER.
Randy Shafer, West Allis, WI. We was raised to treat everyone the same. Most of what goes one in the world doesn’t represent the “whole” of any one race. My family has a mix of many ethnicities and our family does just fine. I can understand the way people feel and believe it’s mostly due […]
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