I've seen many white mothers who were at a loss with what to do with their child's hair when it came out more on the nappy side. If they were mixed boys they'd just cut their hair, but if they were girls they had problems. I once worked in a department store and a white lady came through my check out with her mixed daughter and was buying a brush. The lady seemed to be really distressed and said, "If this doesn't work on your hair I don't know what to do!" I told her I could help her, trying not to laugh in her face. I also knew anothe white woman with a little girl and I did the child's hair and she asks me, "How did you do that?" I had to show her how to comb her child's hair. Recently a young white girl asked me what she should do with her baby daughter's hair because the child's dad's sister was telling her that she couldn't wash her hair everyday like she was a white kid. I guess not all white women are like that though. I disagree that people in general view mixed race children as 50% white and 50% black, especially whites. At least that's not how where I'm from. Most white people view them as black. Point, period, blank. So I do think that before a white woman has a biracial child she should be prepared to know that child will have a very different view of his or her life than the way she was raised, that the child may not be accepted in the same way she was by her family and peers, and that it's important the child be taught of their black heritage and ancestory as well as educated in black history. I once knew a boy during childhood who was plainly mixed and lived with his grandmother because his mother's white husband refused to have him live with them in their house. We were playing once and he got mad and called us "*******". We just looked at him and were like, "So? You are too." And he was like, "No I'm not." I told him, "Look in the mirror when you go home. The next time your cousins come over look at them and look at yourself. You don't look like them." So we all went home and I suppose he acked his grandma if it was true and she told him that it wasn't. he came the next day and said his grandma told him he was white. I told him his grandma was lying because my grandma knows his mama and daddy. After a few weeks of him questioning her, his grandmother finally told him the truth.