Essay On Mexican Immigrant Parenting

Undocumented families arrive in the United States expecting a better life. They come, not knowing what to expect from a foreign country that people speak, so great about. Once they arrive to the United States, their lives start to change. Problems begin to arise. Problems such as, money, language barrier, work, food, etc. Latino families live, day in and day out, trying to avoid the fact that life may become more difficult, than they expected. Everything started back in the 90’s, when families from Latin America began to settle in the United States for a better life. Many men and women from those families did not know how to do much, other than what a handyman was capable of doing. Handymen would like fixing and building things. Families from those foreign countries, had the idea of seeking

The boundary of the Yakama Nation Reservation is considered home to different culturally diverse populations. Parenting skills and teaching can vary dramatically from each of those unique households. The diverse populations come with varying levels of what is considered appropriate child rearing practices. “Child abuse intakes are increasing due to families from Mexico coming here to the US and the standards are different” (Ruiz, 2015). Pilar Ruiz is a Social Worker at Children’s Administration assigned to the Child Protective Services. Families migrate to the area and they carry different perspectives on parenting and may not understand the expectations of Washington State and Child Abuse Laws. It is not only migrant families that need additional support. Families that have been here for many years have traditional practices that may cross the line when it comes to child abuse and neglect. These families that are located in this area need the additional support of increasing family bonds, healthy parenting, life skills, bonding, and reducing violence and substance abuse.

One photo of a man holding a baby sparked this whole debate about Mexican fathers. The impression of Mexican men was that they were not active in their children’s lives. They were thought of as those who “shun those kinds of duties” such as caring for their children (Murray 311). When showed the photo, different people had different reactions. Some thought the man holding the baby looked tender; while others believed the photo looked forced and unrealistic. The people of Mexican culture saw nothing odd about the photo. The ones who questioned it were people from other areas of the world and anthropologists.

In the novel, Divided By Borders; Mexican Migrants And Their Children by author Joanna Derby, accessed in November 2017 summarizes the main ideas of the effects on transnational family relationships over time and the adaption of the family system. Derby explains her motivation into creating the novel is sparked by her own divided family experience and the emotional aspects that tie to real life connections to audiences who may relate or lack knowledge of. Derby effectively designs her research based on 12 groups of families; this gives the audience the interpretation of the children's side and the migrant parents leaving them to caregivers. The novel utilizes interviews to showcase the children's point of view on their parent's migration

Ayón and colleagues (2013) suggest that Latino families may not be accessing kinship care due to challenges to becoming licensed caregivers that include barriers with regards to how kin is defined, immigration status, socioeconomics, and language-appropriate services. Additionally, as Berger Cardoso, Gomez, and Padilla (2009) suggest, child welfare workers may be failing to look across international boundaries to find appropriate kinship

This is because in the Hispanic culture mothers are the caregivers. Motherhood is highly valued and families expect women to care for children as well as family members. Their role is to nurture while the husband is at work leaving them with no actual support system. This at times can be difficult for new mothers and mothers who are not aware of the importance of parenting. This program was created to teach mothers about how their behavior can affect their child, understand the importance of parenting skills, and keeping mothers aware that their actions impact their child’s future. The goal of the program is family

This is extremely telling of North American’s ethnocentrism, assuming Americans could provide a better life to these children than their own parents (Dolgin & Franco, 2002).

According to Santrock, 2015, the quantity of time parents spend with children is important for children’s development but also the quality of the parenting is clearly as important. The styles of parents which is how they interact with their children, how they discipline their children, and co-parenting needs to be considered to

The lack of knowledge that most school counselors possess regarding child abuse and culturally differences in childrearing or punishment practices, creates a ground for misjudging the appropriateness of parental practices in a certain cultural (Project, 2013). School counselors who observe different disciplinary practices of an unfamiliar culture may find themselves viewing culturally different practices as being abusive, for example coining by Asian Americans, whipping by African American, or cupping by East Asians. This would mean that use of culturally diverse childrearing practices places parents at greater risk for being reported to agencies in charge of handling abuse and neglect reports (Brown, 2008). A family may use corporal punishment

Parental ethnotheories are not always easily translated into action. Other factors mediate the relationship between ideas and behavior and contribute to the challenges of parenting in any culture.

Within Indian cultures, parents take the time they have to raise their children and this tend to have greater impact on their children’s lives in today’s world. American parents are more lenient when it comes to raising their children and result of this leads to the children becoming involve in some deviant behavior at times. While in the Indian culture the raising of children involves much bond and discipline, in the American culture, bonding and discipline has little impact of the raising of children.

Results showed that parenting practises, such as parenting strategies, and child functioning is not affected by the ethnicity of the family, family structure, family income, or gender, but that harsh punishment was more likely to occur from mothers, especially from mother to son (2002).

The first dilemma that will be discussed, is the case in trying to ‘fit in’ which was studied in Zayas & Gulbas’ article, Process of Belonging for Citizen-Children of Undocumented Mexican Immigrants. This article specifically looks at children with immigrant parents and family members, who were aware of the privileges they had because of the American traits the children mostly followed, rather than those of their parents/family. Despite being privileged, it was only to a

Most children of immigrant parents are living a double life: American citizen by day and citizen of their homeland at night. The expectation from these children is to assimilate into a new culture and still hold on to their native roots. In theory they should be getting the best of both worlds. However, in reality many of these children will grow up in the American society with a confused, unhealthy mindset and not progress as they should. Above all, not being able to fit into one culture can desensitize someone, cause cultural barriers, and affect an individual’s mental health.

Parenting practices are normally looked at in relation to a particular culture; this focus excludes community input and effect on the expectations and behaviors of parents. For this reason, the focus of this paper will be the effect of community, not culture, on parenting practices. The community can become the standard reference for a parent, and practices may be accepted without question even if they do not match that of the broader society. Variations that exist here in the Southwest, include Native and non-Native parenting practices, Hispanic influences, and socio-economic factors. For Native American families in the Southwest, it is important to also note that their style of shared living impacts their parenting practices. For instance, children may live with other family members such as grandparents, and move routinely from family member to family member as they are growing up. The burden of parenting or raising children in a traditional Native American family belongs to the