Parenting a Child of Another Race
Parenting a child of color in a white household takes different parenting styles than parenting a child of the same race as yourself. As a white person, there are all of these things you have to consider, realize, and understand in order to parent a child of color. It can be incredibly hard to take a look at yourself and the world around you and fully realize certain truths that you may not have to face yourself. Plus, it is hard to prepare your child for something you yourself will never experience. As scary and impossible as these things may seem, it is not impossible to successfully parent a child of another race.
Note from Susan’s Kids: This article is shared from another source and offers a white parent perspective. This does not minimize the importance of parents that are people of color raising a child of a different race. We recognize there are challenges that reach across all races. Foster parents and adoptive parents alike rise together through the challenges of parenting children that were not originally theirs.
