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Multicultural Parenting Resources on the Web

This Web site offers resources to assist parents in raising bilingual children. [Recommended by Michele Natale.]

This is a list of links to materials concerning equity and diversity issues in urban education. [Recommended by Bambang H. Lai.]

This Web site is for children, parents and educators of African descent. It presents interviews, articles, tips, resource materials, and links to Internet resources for parents. [Recommended by Marc Williams.]

The National Parent Information Network's Parent News presents this interesting article about parents as advocates for their cultural values in their children's classrooms. [Recommended by Carmen Duran.]

AcoptioNetwork provides information on how parents can prepare for transracial or transcultural adoption and resolve cultural problems in the family. [Recommended by Bambnag H. Lai.]

The purpose of this Web site is to promote multicultural education. [Recommended by Sherry Luckey.]

This review of Geoffrey Canada's book Reaching Up for Manhood comes from the Web site of the children's Defense fund. [Recommended by Andrea Thoreson.]

This comprehensive paper is part of the School Improvement Research Series of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, a non-profit organization. It is a great resource for understanding intercultural relations in schools. [Recommended by Andrea Thoreson.]

This conference was held in December 1997. The abstracts for the papers presented at the conference are provided at this Web site. [Recommended by Rita Schneider.]

IFSA has been a non-profit organization since 1989. Its mission is to affirm the dignitiy and equality of every racial group through education, to support and serve the interracial unit, and to strengthen the bonds among groups in our multiethnic society through community outreach. Their Web site provides links on interracial topics. [Recommended by Rita Schneider.]

There are more than 700,000 interracial married couples in the United States and as many as five million interracial children. This brief essay introduces the topic of multiculturalism in families. References are provided on this topic. [Recommended by Rita Schneider.]

This document gives an historical perspective of childbirth and circumcision according to Jewish laws and customs. Rabbi Benjamin Hecht provides links to the Torah and other documents that relate to this topic. [Recommended by Elaine Sansom.]

The focus of this Web site is involvement of parents in their children's education. Short articles for parents include "How to Recognize and Develop Your children's Special Talents," "How to Help Your child Avoid Violent Conflicts," and many others. This site is provided by the Urban Education Web, a part of the National Parent Information Network. [Recommended by Pui Lam.]

Information about this program is provided by the Texas Youth Commission. Since nearly all of the research and literature on parenting is based on a white, middle-class population, this program makes an important contribution to our understanding of multicultural issues in parenting. [Recommended by Esmeralda Gomez.]

This site is dedicated to single African-American fathers and provide links to a reference library on single parenting and African culture. It also provides a discussion on the issue of education and its impact on children in single-parent homes. This is a wonderful resource for African-American men who need information about parenting. [Recommended by Syed A. Khurrum.]

This Web site provides a lot of information on parenting - from "Creating an In-Home Art Space for Children" to "Hanukkah Recipes." It is linked to Jewishfamily.com [Recommended by Leah Kotler.]

This social service program is a Web resource that nurtures Korean American families in being emotionally healthy and secure. It provides community outreach and counseling and various programs aimed at low-income families. [Recommended by Jane Kim.]

This site summarizes interviews by Crystal Chappell of other Korean-American adoptees who struggle with their identity of being Korean, American or both. These adoptees feel lost in a society that either wants them to be Asian or to be American. If the adoptees say that they are American, they struggle with their physical features. If the adopotees say that they are Korean, they struggle with their non-Asian last names and their lack of knowledge of Korean culture. They often feel that they are stuck between two cultures and can't go one way or the other. This site provides a link to the Korean American Adoptees Page. [recommended by Jane Kim]