2010
DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2009.05.002
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Challenges to parenting in a new culture: Implications for child and family welfare

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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.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…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.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…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].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…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.…”
Section: High-conflict Divorces Lead To Limited Fatherchild Contactmentioning
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).…”
Section: Family Life In Different Contextsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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