Often times the picture painted of the multiracial family is one replete of doom and gloom. Interracial couples entering into marriage are aware that they may face unique challenges that mono-racial couples do not experience. Racism continues to be alive and well in our nation and when it comes to miscegenation this seems to annoy some people at an even greater level. Interracial couples must also consider the impact ignorant views have on their children. They have to strengthen their families to ensure their children are prepared and empowered to deal with judgmental perceptions about their identity.

Despite the different challenges multiracial families may experience, the vast tales of the mixed race family
aren’t drenched with grim. Quite the contrary. There is great strength in the multiracial family and some of these strengths are:

• Miscegenation helps to rid racial stereotypes of the individuals in the union
• Parents of multiracial families are more like to teach diversity and how to treat people who are
  different from themselves.
• Parents of multiracial children make greater effort to expose their children
  to both cultures and to preserve both heritages.

Miscegenation enables the couple to uproot racial misconceptions each person may have of the opposite race. Racial stereotypes are perpetuated because people refuse to venture out of their racial comfort zone to explore the point of views of other races. In a interracial marriage, it’s imperative that each person examine and dismantling inaccurate opinions in order to maintain a unified body. I am black and my husband is Caucasian. I can remember a time I made an inappropriate joke about Caucasians to my husband. I took it for granted that even though he is my husband, we are of different races and therefore he might not appreciate a joke about his race. I’ve made this same joke about Caucasians to my African American
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