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Scenario

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.

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.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Ethnic identity and heritage?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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