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=Multiracial Children=

What does it mean to be a Multi-racial child? Does it mean that you are not fully one ethnic group? Does it mean that if your great-great-great, grandfather is "mixed" then are you mult-racial?

This is what American people think it means to be Multi-racial.

These girls are twins. Both of their parents are "mixed". So does that mean that they are mixed? Does the twin on the right look mixed? How will they deal with this emotionally? Will our society allow them to say that they are mixed? How will the non colored twin feel?

Multiracial children normally don’t start going through identity problems or "skin" problems, until they hit there teen pre teen years. Why are they treated differently? Multiracial Students: What School Counselors Need To Know. ERIC Digest. "According to Brown (1990), to automatically suggest that multiracial individuals will likely have identity problems as a result of their background typically refers to the view that these individuals do not fit neatly into socially defined racial categories and as a result they have trouble determining their position, role, and status in society. It is important for school counselors to treat multiracial students as individuals first and avoid making false assumptions about them based upon characteristics associated with multiracial group membership ."

The more and more you look around the more multiracial children you see. Over the last decade the number of "mixed" children has increased by over 100,000. **FROM WHAT TO WHAT?** knowing this educators need to know how to treat their student and they need to learn to respect their families wishes. Children of mixed races have unique advantages that other races don’t. But they also have disadvantages. Children that are classified as mixed in society tend to know their identity better then others.  Some people wondered if multiracial children had it emotionally harder then other races, and the truth is that they don’t have any confusion, or bad self esteem. As a matter of fact they tend to have high self esteem and they tend to be high achievers to deal with society and race multiracial children might be put in the minority group, or they will be based off their more dominant physical feature. Research has shown that if you raise a multiracial child as mainly one race then they wont be as happy as the multiracial child that is raised with both races. Some children form multiracial families are often looked at funny and sometimes even picked on. Some kids may even go as far as telling the child that its not right to be multiracial.

For most multiracial children, growing up with multiple races and cultures is interesting, fun, rewarding, and helps make a healthy adult. Some multiracial children may be uncomfortable with their different backgrounds and may benefit from supportive counseling to help them clarify their feelings. Multiracial children who have emotional or behavioral problems may be referred for a psychiatric evaluation.

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