{"id":56548,"date":"2018-06-13T13:16:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T13:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56548"},"modified":"2018-06-13T13:18:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T13:18:28","slug":"in-celebration-of-loving-day-raising-multiracial-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56548","title":{"rendered":"In Celebration of Loving Day: Raising Multiracial Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/parents\/expert-tips-advice\/2018\/06\/in-celebration-of-loving-day-raising-multiracial-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>In Celebration of Loving Day: Raising Multiracial Kids<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/parents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PBS Parents<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/parents\/expert-tips-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Expert Tips &amp; Advice<\/a><br \/>\n2018-06-12<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marjkleinman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Marj Kleinman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/parents\/expert-tips-advice\/2018\/06\/in-celebration-of-loving-day-raising-multiracial-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/parents\/expert-tips-advice\/files\/2018\/06\/picnic1.jpg\" width=\"50%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One year ago today, I met six-year-old Mattie (below) at a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loving_Day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loving Day<\/a> event. Families had gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Loving vs. Virginia<\/em><\/a>, the 1967 landmark Supreme Court decision that made interracial marriage legal across the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Between blowing bubbles and dancing, Mattie told me: \u201cToday is a special day and it doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re black, brown or any other color; it\u2019s just about your love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her dad, Allen, shared, \u201cIt\u2019s important to be here because we want the future to be brighter, safer and more diverse for them. We want to show them that that exists now and make it more commonplace going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the last 50 years, the number of interracial marriages has increased dramatically \u2014 as has public acceptance of these marriages. Yet parents still face a variety of challenges around raising multiracial kids. Allen and his wife, Kelly (with their kids, below) said that they sometimes face stares and the question, \u201cIs that really your child?\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/parents\/expert-tips-advice\/2018\/06\/in-celebration-of-loving-day-raising-multiracial-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last 50 years, the number of interracial marriages has increased dramatically \u2014 as has public acceptance of these marriages. Yet parents still face a variety of challenges around raising multiracial kids. Allen and his wife, Kelly (with their kids, below) said that they sometimes face stares and the question, \u201cIs that really your child?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,8,20],"tags":[5006,70,28755,6107,28754,6108],"class_list":["post-56548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-loving-day","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-marj-kleinman","tag-pbs","tag-pbs-parents","tag-public-broadcasting-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56551,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56548\/revisions\/56551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}