Nov
12
mobilwon asked:
suppose a white male got involved with a woman who had two mixed children from a previous relationship with an african-american. what would the teenage years be like, as a parent, would the children respect you, even if you tried your hardest to bring them up properly, or would there be pronlems with the teens since neither of us are black?
suppose a white male got involved with a woman who had two mixed children from a previous relationship with an african-american. what would the teenage years be like, as a parent, would the children respect you, even if you tried your hardest to bring them up properly, or would there be pronlems with the teens since neither of us are black?
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4 Responses to “2 white parents with 2 mixed children.problems in their teens?”
Girl, if you have to ask the questions, then of course there will be problems. Teens are problems anyway, but if you are well rounded and intelligent, you kids will respect you, it doesn’t matter the age. It is hard but if you give them love and tough love you will come out alright.
Hmmm… it’s a tough one! I’m not sure. If this is a real situation and you really like the woman then I don’t think difficult teenage years should be something you’re THAT worried about now - I mean the teenage years are always going to be hell on earth regardless of who the parents are.. and I speak as a 20yr old who came from a nuclear family…
But, incidentally, my Aunty is of a different ethnicity (and has dark skin, brown eyes, black hair…) to either of my grandparents and thus looked completely different to them, as she was adopted (back in the day when they let an all ‘white’ family adopt a ‘black’ kid - they might worry about the effect on the kid a bit more these days…) and although I’m not entirely sure on her feelings on the issue, it seems like one of her biggest worries as a teenager was the embarrassment at having such OLD parents! - She was adopted after my mum and other aunties and uncles were in their late teens and stuff, so my grandparents would’ve been a tad older than the parents of the other kids at her school…
why would you even think of this? is it a situation your in?
all i can say is It depends on the kid.and why are you looking at some one a seeing a race JUST SEE A PERSON its just a person,someone who lives life the same as you.do you understand what iam saying
A useful book:
Does anybody else look like me? : a parent’s guide to raising multiracial children / Donna Jackson Nakazawa. — Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Books, 2003.