Download or read book Childrearing Values in the United States and China written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-07-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Xiao examines the linkage between social structure and child-rearing values in the United States and China. Her primary objectives are to examine the underlying structure of childrearing values, discover the dynamics of the structural-level, family-level, and individual-level determinants of childrearing values, and to compare patterns of value orientations in the two countries. Three value dimensions--autonomy, conformity, and a care orientation--are identified in both the United States and China samples via factor analyses. Furthermore, despite cross-national differences in political system, economic development, and culture history, Professor Xiao finds Americans and Chinese are quite similar in their thinking of the kinds of things to teach children at home. Among the top six qualities endorsed within each country, five are identical. However, sources of value variations are drastically different in the two countries. For example, in the United States, while the influence of class on men's values for children has become muted overtime, class differences in values continue to exist among women. And neither gender nor motherhood is related to the care orientation. In China, valuation of children's autonomy or conformity is conditioned heavily by political conformity, age, and family size. Of particular interest to scholars, students, and other researchers involved with gender and family studies, sociology, and Asian Studies.

Download or read book A Comparative Study of Childrearing Values in the United States and China written by Hong Xiao and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Parenting Across Cultures written by Helaine Selin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a strong connection between culture and parenting. What is acceptable in one culture is frowned upon in another. This applies to behavior after birth, encouragement in early childhood, and regulation and freedom during adolescence. There are differences in affection and distance, harshness and repression, and acceptance and criticism. Some parents insist on obedience; others are concerned with individual development. This clearly differs from parent to parent, but there is just as clearly a connection to culture. This book includes chapters on China, Colombia, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Thailand, Korea, Vietnam, Brazil, Native Americans and Australians, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Ecuador, Cuba, Pakistan, Nigeria, Morocco, and several other countries. Beside this, the authors address depression, academic achievement, behavior, adolescent identity, abusive parenting, grandparents as parents, fatherhood, parental agreement and disagreement, emotional availability and stepparents.​

Download or read book THE CHINESE AMERICAN METHOD written by Linda Hu; John X. Wang and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raising a child is challenging for many parents, especially for a new, immigrant family. For those parents, they not only have to face the challenges of integrating themselves into a new environment, but they also need to handle the conflicts coming from two cultural backgrounds. Like many Chinese Americans, the authors inherited the traditional Chinese culture. Yet they also opened their minds and embraced their new culture. Through the collisions of these two cultures, they developed a unique parenting strategy: a combination of the best of both worlds to educate their children. This approach offered them a cutting edge in developing their children to be among the most competitive. As they raised their children, they • held parties to build their children’s social groups; • used teamwork to create a harmonious family, strengthening the family bonds; • helped their children excel in academic competitions; • taught their children how to be rigorous and strive for perfection; • inspired their children to explore innovative strategies to overcome obstacles; • developed their children’s creativity, leadership, and initiative; • encouraged their children to be involved in the community; and • gave their children freedom to develop their individual personalities and discover their full potentials. The authors believe that their story will be beneficial to other parents and also provide a new perspective of Chinese American families for mainstream Americans.

Download or read book Childrearing and Infant Care Issues written by Pranee Liamputtong and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child-rearing practices in every society occur in accordance with the cultural norms of the society. In most societies, however, child-rearing practices share a common value: the preservation of life and maintenance of the health and well-being of a new-born infant. In this volume, the authors bring together salient issues regarding cultural beliefs and practices and social issues regarding infant care and child-rearing and infant feeding practices as well as early motherhood in different societies. They show that traditional practices surrounding infant care and child-rearing continue to live despite the fact that many societies have been modernised.

Download or read book Asian American Parenting written by Yoonsun Choi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important text offers data-rich guidelines for conducting culturally relevant and clinically effective intervention with Asian American families. Delving beneath longstanding generalizations and assumptions that have often hampered intervention with this diverse and growing population, expert contributors analyze the intricate dynamics of generational conflict and child development in Chinese, Korean, Filipino, and other Asian American households. Wide-angle coverage identifies critical factors shaping Asian American family process, from parenting styles, behaviors, and values to adjustment and autonomy issues across childhood and adolescence, including problems specific to girls and young women. Contributors also make extensive use of quantitative and qualitative findings in addressing the myriad paradoxes surrounding Asian identity, acculturation, and socialization in contemporary America. Among the featured topics: Rising challenges and opportunities of uncertain times for Asian American families. A critical race perspective on an empirical review of Asian American parental racial-ethnic socialization. Socioeconomic status and child/youth outcomes in Asian American families. Daily associations between adolescents’ race-related experiences and family processes. Understanding and addressing parent-adolescent conflict in Asian American families. Behind the disempowering parenting: expanding the framework to understand Asian-American women’s self-harm and suicidality. Asian American Parenting is vital reading for social workers, mental health professionals, and practitioners working family therapy cases who seek specific, practice-oriented case examples and resources for empowering interventions with Asian American parents and families.

Download or read book Culture and Childrearing written by Ann L. Clark and published by Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Company. This book was released on 1981 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Guidance and information are provided to assist health professionals in bridging the gap between their own values and those of their clients and patients. Nurses from the ethnic groups currently found in America discuss their culture's childrearing values, beliefs, and practices. American ethnic subcultures covered include: American Indians; Blacks; Japanese; Chinese; Filipinos; Mexicans; Puerto Ricans; and Vietnamese. Each section provides extensive coverage of the history of the group: background information on the native country and culture; discussion of their arrival in the US; (except for American Indians) and the Americanization or Anglicization of original cultural practices. The family's place in society is discussed in depth and specific family practices (e.g., discipline, family roles, child care) are covered. Customs and beliefs related to food preferences and nutrition are included. (wz).

Download or read book Parental Roles and Relationships in Immigrant Families written by Susan S. Chuang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful volume presents important new findings about parenting and parent-child relationships in ethnic and racial minority immigrant families. Prominent scholars in diverse fields focus on families from a wide range of ethnicities settling in Canada, China, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States. Each chapter discusses parenting and parent-child relationships in a broader cultural context, presenting within-group and cross-cultural data that provide readers with a rich understanding of parental values, beliefs, and practices that influence children’s developmental outcomes in a new country. For example, topics of investigation include cultural variation in the role of fathers, parenting of young children across cultures, the socialization of academic and emotional development, as well as the interrelationships among stress, acculturation processes, and parent-child relationship dynamics. This timely reference: • explores immigration and families from a global, multidisciplinary perspective; • focuses on immigrant children and youth in the family context;• challenges long-held assumptions about parenting and immigrant families;• bridges the knowledge gap between immigrant and non-immigrant family studies;• describes innovative methodologies for studying immigrant family relationships; and• establishes the relevance of these data to the wider family literature. Parental Roles and Relationships in Immigrant Families is not only useful to researchers and to family therapists and social workers attending to immigrant families, but also highly informative for persons interested in shaping immigration policy at the local, national, and global levels.

Download or read book Chinese American Adolescents Cultural Frameworks for Understanding Parenting written by Freda Fangfang Liu and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parenting approaches that are firm yet warm (i.e., authoritative parenting) have been found to be robustly beneficial for mainstream White Americans youths, but do not demonstrate similarly consistent effects among Chinese Americans (CA) adolescents. Evidence suggests that CA adolescents interpret and experience parenting differently than their mainstream counterparts given differences in parenting values and child-rearing norms between traditional Chinese and mainstream American cultures. The current study tests the theory that prospective effects of parenting on psychological and academic functioning depends on adolescents' cultural frameworks for interpreting and understanding parenting. CA adolescents with values and expectations of parenting that are more consistent with mainstream American parenting norms were predicted to experience parenting similar to their White American counterparts (i.e., benefiting from a combination of parental strictness and warmth). In contrast, CA adolescents with parenting values and expectations more consistent with traditional Chinese parenting norms were predicted to experience parenting and its effects on academic and psychological outcomes differently than patterns documented in the mainstream literature. This study was conducted with a sample of Chinese American 9th graders (N = 500) from the Multicultural Family Adolescent Study. Latent Class Analysis (LCA), a person-centered approach to modeling CA adolescents' cultural frameworks for interpreting parenting, was employed using a combination of demographic variables (e.g., nativity, language use at home, mother's length of stay in the U.S.) and measures of parenting values and expectations (e.g., parental respect, ideal strictness & laxness). The study then examined whether prospective effects of parenting behaviors (strict control, warmth, and their interaction effect) on adolescent adjustment (internalizing and externalizing symptoms, substance use, and GPA) were moderated by latent class membership. The optimal LCA solution identified five distinct cultural frameworks for understanding parenting. Findings generally supported the idea that effects of parenting on CA adolescent adjustment depend on adolescents' cultural framework for parenting. The classic authoritative parenting effect (high strictness and warmth leads to positive outcomes) was found for the two most acculturated groups of adolescents. However, only one of these groups overtly endorsed mainstream American parenting values.

Download or read book Parents and Caregivers Across Cultures written by Brien K. Ashdown and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores diverse parent-child relationships from around the world, drawing on connections between culture and parenting values and challenges. It identifies parenting practices within various countries’ unique historical, political, and cultural backgrounds, reframing parenting as a cultural process whose goals are to encourage culturally-specific child behaviors and outcomes. Chapters focus on parenting research in a range of countries, such as Australia, Bolivia, China, Egypt, Guatemala, India, Rwanda, Namibia, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. Chapters also discuss social, emotional, and physical developmental topics throughout the lifespan, including infancy, early childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, and adulthood. Topics featured in this book include: The link between cultural differences in academic success to parents’ academic socialization practices. The impact of culturally-specific parental engagement in positive developmental outcomes in children. Transgender children and their parents. The relationship between religious and secular values and their influence on creating polygamous teenagers. How to implement a micro-cultural lens to studying parent-child relationships during emerging adulthood. Differences and similarities in grandparenting among different cultures. Parents and Caregivers Across Cultures is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, graduate students as well as clinicians, professionals, and policymakers in the fields of developmental and cross-cultural psychology, parenting and family studies, social work, and related disciplines.

Download or read book Love s Uncertainty written by Teresa Kuan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love’s Uncertainty explores the hopes and anxieties of urban, middle-class parents in contemporary China. Combining long-term ethnographic research with analyses of popular child-rearing manuals, television dramas, and government documents, Teresa Kuan bears witness to the dilemmas of ordinary Chinese parents, who struggle to reconcile new definitions of good parenting with the reality of limited resources. Situating these parents’ experiences in the historical context of state efforts to improve "population quality," Love’s Uncertainty reveals how global transformations are expressed in the most intimate of human experiences. Ultimately, the book offers a meditation on the nature of moral agency, examining how people discern, amid the myriad contingencies of life, the boundary between what can and cannot be controlled.

Download or read book Raising Global Families written by Pei-Chia Lan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public discourse on Asian parenting tends to fixate on ethnic culture as a static value set, disguising the fluidity and diversity of Chinese parenting. Such stereotypes also fail to account for the challenges of raising children in a rapidly modernizing world, full of globalizing values. In Raising Global Families, Pei-Chia Lan examines how ethnic Chinese parents in Taiwan and the United States negotiate cultural differences and class inequality to raise children in the contexts of globalization and immigration. She draws on a uniquely comparative, multisited research model with four groups of parents: middle-class and working-class parents in Taiwan, and middle-class and working-class Chinese immigrants in the Boston area. Despite sharing a similar ethnic cultural background, these parents develop class-specific, context-sensitive strategies for arranging their children's education, care, and discipline, and for coping with uncertainties provoked by their changing surroundings. Lan's cross-Pacific comparison demonstrates that class inequality permeates the fabric of family life, even as it takes shape in different ways across national contexts.

Download or read book Understanding the Chinese Personality written by William J. F. Lew and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Love Money and Parenting written by Matthias Doepke and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doepke and Zilibotti investigate how economic forces shape how parents raise their children. They show that in countries with increasing economic inequality, such as the United States, parents push harder to ensure their children have a path to security and success. Economics has transformed the hands-off parenting of the 1960s and '70s into a frantic, overscheduled activity. Growing inequality has also resulted in an increasing 'parenting gap' between richer and poorer families, raising the disturbing prospect of diminished social mobility and fewer opportunities for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. The authors discuss how investments in early childhood development and the design of education systems factor into the parenting equation, and how economics can help shape policies that will contribute to the ideal of equal opportunity for all. --From publisher description.

Download or read book Women and Child Care in China written by Ruth Sidel and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1982 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at nurseries, nursery schools, and kindergartens and at the revolutionary methods they employ. Compares Chinese child-rearing practices with those in Israel and the Soviet Union and goes on to ask what aspects of the Chinese experience might be of value in the United States.

Download or read book Parenting Between Cultures written by Qingling Yang and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research improved understanding of the parenting practices of Chinese parents who temporarily lived in the United States. Through a qualitative research design, using interviews and observations, and this ethnographic study gave this unique parent group the opportunity to give voice to their current parenting preferences and practices, including how they navigated between the values of two cultures that often opposed one another. Through a constructivist lens, this researcher co-created an understanding of the culture with participants. The purpose of the study was to gain an awareness of and improve understanding about how and why this unique group chose specific parenting practices, how they implemented parenting practices in daily life, and whether or not these practices changed throughout their transition time in the United States. This research helped make some connections and drew some conclusions about the impact of traditional Chinese heritage and temporary United States residential status on parenting preferences, practices, and the familial struggles associated with these unique circumstances. The findings gave voice to a unique population by illuminating their personal experiences with a different culture, in an effort to construct meaning. In addition, the findings added to the lack of current research and helped inform future research about an expanding population of people that face the ongoing challenge of finding balance between the opposing values of culture in which they live.

Download or read book Understanding Cultural Variations of Parenting and Child Self Regulation in Chinese American Families written by Keye Xu and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 3-study dissertation explored the relations between parenting and child self-regulation in Chinese American families. A particular focus of this work involved examining the role of demographic backgrounds and cultural values of mothers in shaping maternal beliefs and practices. In Study 1, I collected online survey data from 110 Chinese American mothers (Mage = 34.50, SD = 6.49) to explore relations among mothers' family income, generational status, cultural values, maternal practices, and child executive functions (EF). Results revealed that mothers' generational status was negatively associated with collectivistic values. High familism values rather than collectivistic values were significantly associated with high maternal absolute authority and coercion/inconsistency. Moreover, the study demonstrated that only maternal coercion/inconsistency was negatively associated with child EF. In Study 2, I conducted virtual Zoom meetings with 42 Chinese American mother-child dyads to examine Chinese American mothers' (Mage = 39.11, SD = 4.15) scaffolding strategies during a drawing game, and how those practices relate to children's (Mage = 6.52, SD = 1.08, Nboy = 21) performance in different EF tasks. Results showed that mothers employed more explanation and directiveness with younger children and second-generation Chinese American mothers use more directive strategies than first-generation mothers. In Study 3, I conducted semi-structured interviews with 32 Chinese American mothers to explore maternal beliefs and practices among Chinese mothers that are specifically related to self-regulation in children's daily life. Results indicated that mothers' beliefs about self-regulation covered emotional, behavioral, and cognitive aspects of self-regulation. Most mothers also emphasized both collectivistic and individualistic regulatory goals, expecting children to be respectful and compliant, as well as independent and self-reliant. Further, Study 3 revealed that Chinese American mothers employed a variety of parenting practices to promote their children's self-regulation abilities, with variations observed depending on the domain of behavior, children's regulatory ability, and mothers' personal backgrounds. Taken together, these three studies revealed the complexity of Chinese parenting in facing demands and challenges across different domains of childrearing. The current dissertation also highlights the significance of mixing quantitative and qualitative methods to enhance our understanding of the nuances in parenting within Chinese American families.