The Preservation and Transmission of Cultural Values and Ideals: Challenges Facing Immigrant Families

“I Want Her to Make Correct Decisions on Her Own:” Former Soviet Union Mothers' Beliefs about Autonomy Development

“…It is possible that some mothers' controlling attitudes came up implicitly because they contradicted their conscious efforts to foster children's individualism and independent decision-making. This underscores the challenges faced by immigrant parents, who need to discern the aspects of their existing beliefs that they want to preserve and pass along and those that need to be readjusted in the new cultural context (Sherry and Ornstein, 2014 ). The internal struggle associated with the complexities of parents' evolving views and identities in the immigration context was also revealed in mothers' discussions of their daughters' body image.…”

Welfare State Chauvinists? Gender, Citizenship, and Anti-democratic Politics in the Welfare State Paradise

“…Families in general, and women in particular, are often seen as key institutions in the transmission of culture and tradition. For this reason, socially conservative policies tend to focus on the protection and preservation of the family, to the point of using the welfare state to promote and enshrine the heteronormative family (Sherry and Ornstein, 2014;Hausermann, 2018;Williams, 2018). Thus, (perceived) threats to the welfare state often correspond with (perceived) threats to the family, playing as important a role as it does in socially conservative ideology.…”