My daughter is mixed-race and my ex-wife and I are struggling to figure out how to help her navigate her identity when we live in different neighborhoods now and have different perspectives on race ourselves. Every conversation about her hair, her friends, what schools to consider, becomes this loaded discussion about which parent understands her identity better.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are discovering that their child's complex identity amplifies their own differences in ways that make co-parenting feel like a referendum on who belongs where.
“Where Are You with The hyphenated identity and belonging?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.