Some of y’all might feel uncomfortable: do you buy dolls of other races for your child?
Or do you prefer to buy dolls that only resembles your child’s race .

Our family is super diverse, but we're living in an area that is like 99% white, so it's super important to me that we have diverse dolls

My daughter has a baby annabel that is white, she then wanted the bigger version and chose the black one.

I have a son but if I had a daughter I'd mostly get her black babies and doll but wouldn't be opposed to getting her or her receiving a baby of a different race. She'd probably have a good mixture

No but does the Disney dolls count ie Encanto, Moana, jasmine? I don’t overly like baby dolls anyway and don’t think my daughter was hugely into them.
That said my mum has a black and white China doll from the 50s that she has passed down to me. Probably worth a bit of money now.

There was actually a poll about a week ago. I just bought her first baby doll, and it's white. But I didn't realize until I was going through her toys that she has little people dolls of all shades. I plan to do a mixture, but I wouldn't go out of my way to find different skin tones

I'm 1/4 Mexican but honestly look super white and my son is blonde with blue eyes. His baby doll looks like him (blonde blue eyes) and that's his only like...larger doll. For like fisher price little people and such he has several of varying races. If we had a kid who was more into dolls or maybe a girl who liked Barbies we would have a mixed collection. It's important to me that he experiences seeing lots of different races. I have a Mexican background, my best friend is mixed, and my nieces are half black half white so this is his actual real life that I want him to see represented.
We live in Oregon where there are LOTS of white people. I don't even think I saw a black person in my hometown until I was an older teenager. That's not his life though and his play should represent his life.

that's a gorgeous set

I don't have much dolls for my son yet but I do control our books for him. I make sure all races, gender are represented and also that the stories are not mysoginist, homophobic, rude with big bodies, racist,...

We did try but 15+ years ago there wasn’t many options.

90% to 100% of my dolls Barbie’s and baby dolls were black growing up. I think I mostly picked the black doll anyway. I still have my first cabbage patch doll. My son carries it around now a little rocking it and shushing but doesn’t have any of his own. My daughter is 7 months but I assume her first birthday she will start getting dolls and Barbie’s and what not and I’ll probably do the same. Majority black/brown dolls and occasionally white or other races ones.

Kinda related kinda not. I had white Barbies growing up. Smh.

baby you made my day posting this! This is absolutely beautiful!!! I love this !!

When my daughter is old enough, yes, I plan to have a diverse set of dolls.

My son isn't really into human dolls/action figures, he mostly likes cars/trucks/dinosaurs/animals. But he does have a few little people, and they're diverse.

I buy all races but try to buy ones that look like my kids. I was annoyed their were only two options for the baby alive dolls I got my girls. I didnt want the white & blonde one 😂 looks like me, not my kids. I was trying to find tanner ones or ones with curly dark hair 🫤 I don’t think my kids really care either way though

My daughters have every shade of every type of doll.

My daughter is 6 weeks and her first little baby doll is white.
My son, 2, has a ton of little people. They are all different races. Although I don’t think I’ve seen an Asian one.
I don’t plan to intentionally get a diverse mix of races, but I’m not against it. I’ll buy what ever they want.
I had all white dolls growing up.

I’m white and my husband is mixed. LO has a few white, a few black and a few mixed dolls.

We have all sorts of colors. Although trying to find a red headed doll that looks like my girl is super tricky!

Not exactly for me but I get my nieces and my little sister dolls of all races and even the ones with disabilities. I think it’s good for kids to see the world in different ways

My daughter is half Hispanic half European. Her only 2 baby dolls are a brownish. I’d probably stick to her next doll also resembling her a bit, but as she gets more and more into specific Barbie’s or doll type etc, I might buy her a mix. With her little people toys or even kids in her books, we point out who it might look like that we know. Like, “look at that little girl she has red hair just like you friend so and so.”

My daughter has white baby doll as that’s what she picked but she has black Barbie’s and then Disney dolls like Jasmine, Mulan, Pocahontas etc

I accidentally voted trying to exit the screen. Sorry!

I try to buy mostly darker skin tones of dolls and Barbie’s for my kids, my kids are biracial but I know that through media and just where we live they’ll get more exposure to whiteness and euro centric beauty standards so I’m trying to kinda fight that and even it out lol

No I don’t. My friend bought my daughters their first 2 black dolls prior to them being born at my baby shower and I recently bought one black doll at a Kwanzaa event that I attended this month. However I haven’t actually planned to purchase dolls for my daughters as of yet. I have no issues with my daughters playing with dolls of different races. we have toys in our house that are of other races naturally as we live in a nation that is engrossed in it and even more so since we live in a predominantly white neighborhood. In our home the vast majority of art , toys , television, books etc are of black positive images. Since the country that we live in conveys the opposite overwhelmingly . If I lived in an area of the world that is heavily populated with melanated individuals like the Caribbean or Africa I may have purchased dolls of different races for them if that were the case.

When I'm shopping alone, if I find a doll that looks like her, I'll get it (she's mixed). If I'm shopping with my daughter, I just let her choose her favorite.

My daughter is biracial and with blue eyes.

So I buy her dolls that are brown girls and brown eyes. Because she is already fair skin and people tend to tell her she’s white.

My kids don’t like baby dolls but my sister had a black baby doll when we were growing up. My mom still has him! His name is Billy lol.

Currently only have 1 but I’m not opposed to other races if people give them to us - she only has 1 baby doll right now

All blk everything ✊🏽 lbs no but we are mainly gifted black/AA dolls. I’ve only purchased one black babie.

We just buy whatever she likes. I don't have a preference in what colour skin the dolls have, it honestly makes no difference. Whatever she picks out is fine with me.

I’ll answer for images since we don’t do dolls. But we do do puzzles and books and there are figurines and little people which are practically dolls.

Personally I only buy images Black or brown folks for my kid, unless I’m buying something like a train set and there are little figurines that are all white- then I will still buy the set as I don’t know where to get an alternative BUT I may remove the figurines and replace them with a more diverse group of little folk, or stick figures or whatever.

I don’t mind if I buy something and it has a diverse cast, like kids from all over in the illustrations, that’s not a problem. We also do books from other cultures where they may only show that one culture which I also have zero issues with. But I don’t buy media or toys that are predominately white (barring the train set thing and even then like I said I’ll donate the white figurines).

When someone buys something for my kid though that’s different- I keep it as is.

I do it like that because everything is so white, and if I don’t all my kid’s stuff will be majority white with a little Black and other POC representation sprinkled in. I’m really intentional about not creating an environment for my child that reinforces a presumption of whiteness, or a dominance of English-American culture.

It turns out that we end up with representations of people from around the world- the things you can get most easily will already have mostly if not all white characters so if I simply never provide that stuff (even though that makes it sound like those items are excluded, they aren’t) it’ll just be a more diverse mix at the end of the day when you add what I buy my child & whatever else my child may receive from others.

I want my baby to see themselves as having a natural place rather than being an exception or a token in a given space, so I will to keep doing exactly this. If I ever get baby something with very little Black representation, it’s an old book.

My son is mixed (asian & black) & he has a brown baby doll.