Biracial Family Network

The Biracial Family Network (BFN), also known as the Chicago Biracial Family Network is a nonprofit organization and social group based in Chicago that was formed in 1980.{{cite news |last1=Donnella |first1=Leah |title=All Mixed Up: What Do We Call People Of Multiple Backgrounds? |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/08/25/455470334/all-mixed-up-what-do-we-call-people-of-multiple-backgrounds |access-date=6 April 2021 |work=NPR.org |date=25 August 2016 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Wong |first1=Grace |last2=McCoppin |first2=Robert |title=Interracial marriage more common, but acceptance still not universal |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-interracial-marriage-study-met-20170518-story.html |access-date=6 April 2021 |work=The Chicago Tribune |date=18 May 2017}} BFN was founded by Irene Carr and five other mothers who were the parents of biracial and transracially adopted children.{{cite book |last1=Root |first1=Maria P. P. |title=The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier |date=1996 |publisher=SAGE |isbn=978-0-8039-7059-5 |page=332 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aai963LKFMsC&dq=%22Biracial+Family+Network%22&pg=PA332 |access-date=6 April 2021 |language=en}} BFN has traditionally focused on supporting those in interracial/intercultural relationships via education and social activities. However, over the years, its scope has grown to also include those who are of mixed heritage – biracial, multiracial, transracially adopted.{{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=Jon |title=IDENTITY CRISIS CAN BE A LIFELONG PROBLEM FOR BIRACIAL FAMILIES |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-03-18-9803180172-story.html |access-date=6 April 2021 |work=The Chicago Tribune |date=18 March 1988}}

BFN also participated in the 1988 founding of the Association of MultiEthnic Americans as one of the fourteen charter organizations.{{cite book |last1=States |first1=United |last2=Personnel |first2=United States Congress House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service Subcommittee on Census, Statistics, and Postal |title=Review of Federal Measurements of Race and Ethnicity: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Census, Statistics, and Postal Personnel of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, April 14; June 30; July 29; November 3, 1993 |date=1994 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |isbn=978-0-16-043700-7 |page=152 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y92bjgaTZZQC&dq=%22Biracial+Family+Network%22&pg=PA152 |access-date=6 April 2021 |language=en}}