Challenges to parenting in a new culture: Implications for child and family welfare

Lewig, Kerry; Arney, Fiona; Salveron, Mary

doi:10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2009.05.002

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“…There may be several explanations for this finding. Firstly, migration to a new country and culture often challenges familial roles and responsibilities and may also cause changes in family organisation and functioning [35][36][37]. Leidy et al [12] for instance note that one of the challenges to positive parenting is a lack of extended family members who previously helped with raising children.…”

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Mental Health and Health Risk Behaviors of Multicultural Adolescents according to Their Mothers’ Native Country: Using Data from the 11th (2015) Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Survey 2015

Ju¹,

Park²,

Lee³

2017

Child Health Nurs Res

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Background: Studies have shown that, compared to native counterparts, preschoolers from ethnic minorities are at an increased risk of problem behaviour. Socio-economic factors only partly explain this increased risk. This study aimed to further unravel the differences in problem behaviour among ethnic minority and native preschoolers by examining the mediating role of family functioning and parenting factors.

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Mental Health and Health Risk Behaviors of Multicultural Adolescents according to Their Mothers’ Native Country: Using Data from the 11th (2015) Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Survey 2015

Ju¹,

Park²,

Lee³

2017

Child Health Nurs Res

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“…Chronic stress experienced by refugee parents can increase the risk of mental health problems including postpartum depression, injuries, and delays in language and social development in children [9][10][11]. Refugee parents may lack information about parenting practices and discipline strategies in the host culture [12] and may feel disempowered by changing expectations for their children [13]. In the host country insufficient family support places additional stress on vulnerable refugees [4].…”

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Challenges Faced by Refugee New Parents from Africa in Canada

Stewart

Dennis

Kariwo

et al. 2014

J Immigrant Minority Health

108

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This study examines challenges faced by refugee new parents from Africa in Canada. Refugee new parents from Zimbabwe (n = 36) and Sudan (n = 36) were interviewed individually about challenges of coping concurrently with migration and new parenthood and completed loneliness and trauma/stress measures. Four group interviews with refugee new parents (n = 30) were subsequently conducted. Participants reported isolation, loneliness, and stress linked to migration and new parenthood. New gender roles evoked marital discord. Barriers to health-related services included language. Compounding challenges included discrimination, time restrictions for financial support, prolonged immigration and family reunification processes, uncoordinated government services, and culturally insensitive policies. The results reinforce the need for research on influences of refugees' stressful experiences on parenting and potential role of social support in mitigating effects of stress among refugee new parents. Language services should be integrated within health systems to facilitate provision of information, affirmation, and emotional support to refugee new parents. Our study reinforces the need for culturally appropriate services that mobilize and sustain support in health and health related (e.g., education, employment, immigration) policies.

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“…Immigrant fathers may also feel their positions undermined by wives receiving state support or entering the labour market (Liversage 2014;Strier & Roer-Strier 2010), leading some to seek to assert their dominance within the private sphere. In refugee families, traumatic experiences may exacerbate the situation (Lewig, Arney & Salveron 2010). Class issues, dysfunctional marriages, poor pre-divorce relations between fathers and children and a high threshold for divorce may thus also contribute to explaining the lower post-divorce levels of father-child contact amongst ethnic minorities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Besides the importance of norms and practices from countries of origin, migration processes also affect ethnic minority family life, including stresses related to migration, poverty, unemployment and the loss of linguistic skills and network support (Chuang and TamisLeMonda 2009;Lewig et al 2010). Some ethnic minority men, therefore, lose the basis for their customary position as household heads, also due to women's better access to work, education and social support in the host country (Kleist 2010).…”

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“…Other factors conditioning domestic abuse in ethnic minority families may be stresses resulting from migration, status loss in the new country and social isolation (Lewig, Arney & Salveron 2010;Szczepanikova 2005), as well as relatively high levels of domestic violence in countries of origin (Douki et al 2003;Kocacik, Kutlar & Erselcan 2007). Immigrant fathers may also feel their positions undermined by wives receiving state support or entering the labour market (Liversage 2014;Strier & Roer-Strier 2010), leading some to seek to assert their dominance within the private sphere.…”

Section: High-conflict Divorces Lead To Limited Fatherchild Contactmentioning

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Out of Touch: <i>Understanding Post-divorce Relationships between Children and Fathers in Ethnic Minority Families</i>

Liversage¹,

Ottosen²

2017

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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While ethnic minority children today experience parental separation almost as often as the majority of Danish children, research on how they experience divorce is limited. Hence, this article applies a mixed methods approach to investigate post-divorce father-child contact for ethnic minority children compared to Danish majority peers. Drawing on survey data, the article documents how ethnic minority children are more likely than their Danish majority peers to have either no contact with their fathers or see their fathers for shorter durations. Drawing on qualitative interviews with adult and child members of post-divorce ethnic minority families, we propose that the observed differences in post-divorce father-child contact can result from the lower socio-economic position of the members of such families, be tied to higher thresholds for divorcing, and arise from different understandings of the role of the father in the ethnic minorities' home country cultures as compared to the Danish host society.

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Challenges to parenting in a new culture: Implications for child and family welfare

Cited by 110 publications

References 17 publications

Mental Health and Health Risk Behaviors of Multicultural Adolescents according to Their Mothers’ Native Country: Using Data from the 11th (2015) Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Survey 2015

Mental Health and Health Risk Behaviors of Multicultural Adolescents according to Their Mothers’ Native Country: Using Data from the 11th (2015) Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Survey 2015

Challenges Faced by Refugee New Parents from Africa in Canada

Out of Touch: <i>Understanding Post-divorce Relationships between Children and Fathers in Ethnic Minority Families</i>

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