Your grandparents are usually people that treat you better than anyone else on this earth! They take you on trips, you spend weekends at their house, they come to all your sporting events, and they spoil you like no other! Your grandparents make you feel so loved and so special.
Due to how society labels and looks at biracial children, sometimes grandparents of biracial children face a challenge they are not quite sure how to handle. You see, the grandparents of the biracial children love their grandchildren. But when the grandparents go out in public with their biracial grandchildren sometimes they are not prepared for the stares and comments. This is more promident with grandparents who are white. Some white grandparents fear the label of being associated with a black family. They are also scared of what society and their neighbors will think of them. Can you believe that some grandparents actually will distance themselves or have no relationship with their grandchildren because they are biracial? Imagine how that affects a child!
On the other hand, sometimes it can bring the families together. In my case, my parents did not speak to me for 1 1/2 years because I married someone of a different race. When I was pregnant my mother told me she would have nothing to do with any of my children. The moment my first child was born my parents in love with my son. The birth of my two children actually helped my family become closer. My parents learned to love unconditionally and no longer saw black and white...they just saw family!
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