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How to protect your children from grandparents who reject their identity

I married outside my culture and now my parents barely acknowledge my mixed-race children at family events and I'm running out of excuses to give my kids.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A parent must shield their children from family members whose conditional love threatens the child's sense of worth.

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