However, they were very supportive to us. You can feel if you are accepted, and we were. After dating white men all her life, it seemed natural to Korean-born Kim Stockdell to marry one. But it wasn't natural to the father of her husband, Tom Stockdell. Having seen Asian children with mixed heritage treated like second-class citizens, the military veteran was afraid his son's interracial children would have a difficult life, Kim said.
Life is too short to worry.
Harris, the Michigan sociologist, said problems can arise for interracial children. Many tend to identify with the white race more than with their Asian heritage, he said, but they also have a hard time finding people with similar backgrounds to whom they can relate. After 22 years of marriage, the Stockdells have no biological children. They have two children, ages 6 and 8, adopted from the same South Korean orphanage where Kim Stockdell once lived. An American family adopted Kim when she was 8 months old after her parents abandoned her.