Making mixed babiesPosted in Articles, Autobiography, Family/Parenting, Media Archive, United Kingdom on 2014-09-12 15:08Z by Steven |
Bump 2 Baby: Pregnancy & Mothering Blog
2014-09-11
Jody-Lan Castle, Linked Data Specialist
BBC News
As the world becomes increasingly more heterogeneous, having a mixed identity is increasingly common.
It’s really important to make children aware of their family background.
The memories of my own parents’ family histories had already begun to become diluted as they were passed down to me.
My Mother had voyaged to the shores of England by boat from the far lands of Malaysia. And my Father, born just round the corner in Essex, was the son of descendants of Irish and Roma travellers.
But specific details were never handed down to me, as they had started fading even from my Mother and Father’s recollections before I was born…
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