The study also found, however, that biracial adolescents may struggle to define their identity, ranging more widely across a variety of often-risky teenage behaviors in the process.
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The study compared 63 teens in grades 7 through 12 who had one white and one black parent, with two other groups: 5,535 students who had two white parents, and 940 teens with two black parents. Researchers found the behavior of the mixed-race teens didn’t match either group. Instead, they seemed to establish a new, separate way of behaving that was different, says the study by Christopher Ruebeck and Susan Averett of Lafayette College, and Howard Bodenhorn of Clemson University.
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