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When your partner's vision of a good life conflicts with your children's ethnic identity

My white husband wants to move to the suburbs for better schools but I know my mixed-race kids will be the only brown faces in their classes and I grew up feeling invisible in spaces like that.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to provide opportunities clashes with the need to preserve cultural belonging and protect children from isolation.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Ethnic identity and heritage?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.