One of the worst things you can say about raising biracial child...

"Its no different than raising mon0-racial kids". Except the truth is, it is...Its easy for a parent to disregard their child, to disregard the realities that child may go through, but as the biracial child themselves realize...its not an easy road, and its even harder when the parents don't pay attention.

Most biracials are raised by their white moms (with the exceptions of few). Often the white moms fail to realize that by having a child of color, they can no longer fully benefit from white privilege like they used to. This means the luxury of living in all white or predominately white towns is no longer a safe option.

Many biracials have given horrifying tales of growing up as one of few people of color in a white population that is somewhere in the 90s range.

A child of color should not be raised in a white town that has over a 60%-70% majority....the less people of color that exist in a white town, the less accepting they may be, and the more open in their racism they are going to be.

This may be something adults are willing to deal with, but should the kids?

There was one case where a family with biracial kids was attacked. The mom decided to move them out of there. In another case a racist white man flew the racist confederate flag and often said horrible things about blacks, the family refused to be driven away by their neighborhood's racism towards them. Sometimes you have to know when the battle is worth fighting and when its not. You can't just think about your ability to withstand it...the kids are ultimately important.

Raising biracial kids is different from mono-racial kids, you have the responsibility of introducing them to two different worlds. You have the responsibility as the white parent to be awaken to the realities of racism. If not, then you get people like my mom who often says racist things, and is not someone I could ever turn to if i had a problem due to racism...no one in my family is.

And the most important is that you don't want them to grow up to be self haters. Also you do not want to push self identity on them.

Black mothers of biracials have the problem of introducing them to the white world. They have the reverse problem. Remember there are ghetto blacks out there that relish in the thought of harassing a biracial simply for being a lighter shade with a white parent.

Interracial relationships are extremely hard to maintain...raising biracial kids is also hard...at least with the first one you have. I don't have children myself, by as a biracial and knowing everything my mom did wrong, I can say as an expert that, if you take raising biracials too lightly, they have a better chance of being one of the stereotyped "screwed up" kids.