I think it can be hard on them but if you raise a child to appreciate themselves and with a healthy self esteem whatever issues they may or may not have can be worked out.

I agree with .Vanessa. It's important to teach them their heritage and if possible have someone who shares their culture/race in their lives.

One of my friends has 2 daughters. She is white and their father is black. He is in jail a lot and the girls don't have anybody black in their lives other than him. It's really hard on them and they make comments about not looking normal, not being pretty, etc. They are the most beautiful children .I have ever seen. She did end up getting them involved with a black .B.S. I (behavior specialist) and it has worked out well.

true but once again it's just the way the world is.

I don't see a problem with it. My husband is hispanic and I am caucasian, our daughter is mixed. She's got plenty people in her life of both ethnicities. She understands english and spanish. She will be raised knowing her culture and celebrating holidays from both sides of the border.

what i'll do about it is teach my child to treat everyone with respect the way that i was raised.. but i have enough problems in my own life then to go on a human rights crusade. what are you doing to change the world today eiri?

i don't see a problem with having a partner of a different race or having a mixed child. if they get tased then that's too bad but if if they aren't getting teased about one thing it's another, i don't really think theres any way around it.

i don't really get what this debate is about. we all know it's wrong to judge someone because of their ethnicity or skin colour. both of my parents are mixed aboriginal and scottish ancestry. they both have darker hair and skin and eyes. i happened to get the fair skin/hair and blue eyes, which neither of my parents have. i grew up in aboriginal communities and in the city with all kinds of different ethnic groups and, yeah, at times it has been hard for me to identify with any of them. but at some point i realised that there isn't anything wrong with who i am and i'm glad that i have a different perspective on identity and i would never, ever judge another person that way because i know what it's like to be judged. in my opinion a challenge like that can be easily turned into an advantage and a blessing if a strong sense of pride and healthy confidence are instilled in the child by the family. at the end of the day i know who i am and where i come from and what my culture and heritage are and no one can take that away from me.

My family is mixed. My mother is white and my father is black. I had a baby girl 3 months ago with my b/f whom is white. Throughout my whole pregnancy I was gettin anxious about what color my daughter's skin would be. Well she's white with blue eyes. Luckily she has my facial features lol. But anyways...since she is 1/4 black, I would like her to know where she comes from from all sides of the family.

Well I am hispanic and my fiance is caucasian white. I'm not too worried about racial issues for the future children we will have because while i'm hispanic i look caucasian, nobody can tell i'm hispanic except to when i speak that they notice my accent. So our children would be white and they will have my fiance's american last name so unless I announce it nobody would ever notice they are of mixed race. But I do plan to teach them spanish and teach them about the culture and such.

my son is black/white...he looks white through and through...i wondered my whole pregnancy what color he would be ...but i never actually though if it would be hard on him....

I don't really understand the problem. I think that the world has changed a lot in the last few years. I went to school with many people of mixed race. And no one was teased. I actually do not know anyone that doesn't have more than one ethnicity/culture.

I personally am german and native american.

i'm italian light skinned and the father of my baby is very very dark,the eyes and lips african100% tall.. i'd like so much my baby like him, but as it's impossible i'm wonderin' how he/she will be.. i'm at 6 ms, and i don't want to know the sex... but if he is a boy it will be like the first son of SEAL e KLUM or darker?(4thecolour i mean) but if the nous is """worst""" than others african nouse(like the singer Usher, terrible) but the father is cool on the whole,, upon my baby this nouse i....it.., nooo... i cant imagine that...it could be?? but if is a girl it would be a smaller nous? and his mother ald all his brothers have this nouse
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It's spelled Nose.

I'm surprised that in this day and age people still try to make an issue out of this. Who is purely one thing or the other anymore? I'm haitian and dominican. My husband is Puerto Rican which if anyone knows their history is simply a mix of different cultures (african, native american and european). I guess since I'm mixed and my husband technically is as well that we should be having some identity issues right now. I knew I forgot to do something, let me go pencil in an identity crisis in my day planner.
According to the US government my son is multiracial because to the government I am considered black and my husband is considered white (don't even get me started on that one!). Do I foresee any problems with my son? Not really. Even if other children tease him which I can't imagine happening with the way the population is in this area, I wouldn't be too worried. Children tease each other based on appearance all the time. Why don't we all just be who we are and be happy about it. I'm getting soooo sick of the emphasis that is placed on looking one way or another.

I find easern asian women (japanese, chinese) very attractive, and would love to marry an easterg woman and have children some day in the future. However i do not think something as small as race should affect the chil in any way.