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“A Little Girl We Barely Know Is Coming to Live with Us”: How One Writer, Unexpectedly, Became a Father

By Bill Clegg — 2020

As we pack up her things—some clothes, diapers, and a few stuffed animals—a realization hits me: A little girl we barely know is coming home to live with us.

Read on www.vogue.com

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The Black Parenting Book: Caring for Our Children in the First Five Years

The parents of America’s 3.6 million black children under age six face unique challenges and, until now, there has not been one complete resource for them.

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Allison Abner, Linda Villarosa, Anne C. Beal
1998
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19:51

The Cultural Shock of Raising Children Abroad | Victoria Kweidhusa, Pamela Lubowa & Shifa Mwesigye

Welcome to another episode of mothering! Thanks ladies for joining us on this episode! Are you in the diaspora? What’s the biggest cultural shock been for you while raising your children?

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2021
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11:38

Multicultural Couples Debate on Raising Their Children | 2 Cultures, 1 Couple

Couples with different cultural backgrounds discuss their children and how they choose to raise them, while navigating discipline, education, and social media. Love & Hip Hop’s DJ Drewski and Sky Landish weigh in on how they plan to raise their future children.

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2020
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32:46

Dr. Alduan Tartt: How Single Moms Can Raise Boys into Exceptional Men

Psychologist Dr. Alduan Tartt provides seven tips for how single moms can raise boys to be exceptional men regardless of circumstance. Single moms have been and will continue to raise boys into the world’s most powerful men.

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2013
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Mom & Me & Mom

For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence—a presence absent during much of Angelou’s early life.

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Maya Angelou
2013
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17:35

How to Resolve Racially Stressful Situations—Howard C. Stevenson

If we hope to heal the racial tensions that threaten to tear the fabric of society apart, we’re going to need the skills to openly express ourselves in racially stressful situations. Through racial literacy—the ability to read, recast and resolve these situations—psychologist Howard C.

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2018
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Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America

The story every mother in America needs to read. As featured on NPR and the TODAY Show. All moms have to deal with choosing baby names, potty training, finding your village, and answering your kid’s tough questions, but if you are raising a Black child, you have to deal with a lot more than that.

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Nefertiti Austin
2019
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Self-Portrait in Black and White: Family, Fatherhood, and Rethinking Race

The son of a “black” father and a “white” mother, Thomas Chatterton Williams found himself questioning long-held convictions about race upon the birth of his blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter―and came to realize that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them, or anyone else.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams
2020
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Adjusting to Parenthood