Cultural Diversity in U.S. Parents

  1. What are three types of diversity within the subject of Cultural Diversity Amount U.S. Parents
    • ethnic/racial group membership
    • immigrant status
    • religious beliefs
  2. Which are the minority groups discussed?
    Latino Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Multiracial Parents and Immigrants
  3. How is religion described
    an aspect of many families lives that provides a cultural context, with its values and beliefs, traditions and rituals
  4. The population of the United States is
    • the third most populous country in the world
    • 329 people
  5. non-Americans began with landing of the Mayflower...
    in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620
  6. Slaves from Africa began arriving
    • by 1697, slaves comprised 20% of the population of New York
    • by 1800 slaves made up almost 79% of the population of South Carolina and 40% of the population of Virginia
  7. by the 1800s mostly European immigrants began arriving in New York.
  8. By 1910 28% of all children in the United States lived in immigrant families
  9. Currently 76.6% of the U.S. population is classified as white and the top 10 countries of origin are
    Germany, Ireland, England, Italy, Poland, France, Scotland, Norway, Holland, and Sweden
  10. Population by Hispanic/Latino or White Origin in US
    • 63.7% are White Alone
    • 16.3% are Hispanic or Latino Whites
    • 83.7% are Not Hispanic or Latino Whites
  11. Population by Race in US, 2018
    White 72.4, Black 12.6, Some other race 6.2, Asian 4.8, Two or More Races 2.9, American Indian .9, Native Hawaiian .2,
  12. Deficit Model
    Minority parents were viewed as deficient in parenting when compared to white, middle-class parents.
  13. More recent research looks at why differences
    • may be adaptive for their particular culture
    • ways are resilient in teh face of a number of hardships
  14. acculuration
    the process by whereby an individual is socialized to the cultural norms (values, attitudes, and behaviors) of the majority society.
  15. The more acculturated minority parents become, teh more their
    child-bearing beliefs mirror those of the majority society
  16. Acculturation does not happen quickly,
    it is a multi-generational process that is also multidimensional and dynamic
  17. Some aspects of cultural heritage are retained while other
    dimensions undergo change
  18. The degree that an individual has acculturated into the majority culture, is now recognized to be linked to mental health in complex ways
  19. enculturation
    used to describe the degree to which an individual is socialized to maintain the norms of one's heritage culture.  This includes values, ideas and traditional practices.
  20. acculturation and enculturation consist of these multiple components
    language, behavior, clothing, ethnic identity, personality, attitudes, and ethnic cultural knowledge.
  21. The extent to which acculturation and enculturation is valued vary across minority gorups
    • enculturation is more important to African Americans
    • acculturation is valued more by Asian Americans
  22. Ethnic and minority families experience life differently than do families in the majority. They endure racism, prejudice, and discrimination which leads to
    continued economic deprivation, geographic isolation, and stress
  23. Today racism and prejudice views are more often expressed as microaggressions defined as:
    brief and commonplace verbal, behavioral, or enviormental indignities, whehter intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color.
  24. Six types of microaggressions
    Assumption of identity, Second Class Citizen & Assumption of Criminality, Microinvalidations, Exoticizations/Assumptoins of Similarity, Environmental Microaggressions, Workplace or School Microaggressions
  25. Latinos and Hispanics ar Americans who are descended form Spain or Latin America (Central or South America) They constitute the largest and most diverse minority gourp in the US
    • 2018, 18% of the nations population (58 million people) is classified as Latino.  
    • Latino persons of latin origin (Carribean, Central America, or South America)
    • Hispanic persons with historic link to Spain, such as Protugal and Iberia
  26. 65% of Latinos in the US wer born in the country
    Mexican Americans form the largest (63% of Latinos or 36 million) and most widely studied Latino group.
    The second largest are Puerto Ricans (9% or 5.4 millino), followed by Salvadorians, Cubans, Dominicans, Guatemalans, and Columbians
  27. foreign-born Latinos were less likely to spank their young children than U.S. born Latino parents
  28. One of the most commonly reported parenting qualities of Latino parents is how their values differ from majority culture parents:  Two values:  Respeto - respect for authority, Familism - are more likely to be responsive and closely monitor their children and demanding of what they expect form their children's behavior
    Familiasm a value that promotes famliy interactions nad support can be a source of resilience in families by protecting against depressoin and moderating the effect of parental conflict
  29. Two other values studied in Latino parents:  machismo and educacion.  Machismo is valuing manliness, assertiveness, power and self-reliance. fathers tend to be authoritarian and use physical punishment.  educacion - traditional education and morality repsonsibiltiy and interpersonal relationships
  30. Due to heterogeneity of Latinos, there is inconsistent evidence about the extent of which they engage in particular parenting practices. 
    Some studies show them as permissions and others harsh discipliarians
  31. 2004 Varela found that all parents reported using authoritative practices
    2019 52% authoritative
    24% no nonense, high on acceptance, demandingness and harsh discipline. 
    14% rejecting/neglecting
    10% authoriatian 
    Child rearing tailored to capture their culture and values
  32. Multiracial marriages were illegal in 16 states. 1967  did Supreme court strike down all "anti-miscengenation" laws.

    Interracial marriages were rare comprising of less than 1% of marriages
  33. multiracial - An individual having a background that includes two or more races
    interracial - involving different races, such as marriage or adoption
    interethnic - between Latinos and non-Latinos
    Intermarriage -marrying out - marrying an individual from a different racial/ethnic or religious group
    Intramarriage - marrying in - marriages between individuals of the same race or ethnicity
  34. Multiracial report the highest rate of drug use of any ethnic group 
    More than 17% of multiracial people report they engaged in illicit drug us, compared to 10.5% of blacks, 9.5% of whites and 3.1% of Asians 2014
  35. Immigrant - an individual who lives permanently in a foreign country
    second-generation immigrant - refers to someone who was born in the new country to at least one foreign-born parent.

    43.2 million 13.4% of nations population are immigrants
  36. refugees - seek a safe haven from persecution due to race, nationality, political opinion, religion, or group membership
    Since 1983 3 million refugees have settled in US
  37. Most children - 79%  - living with immigrant parents were born in the US
    24% of them have at least one parent who was also born here.
  38. childern are often language brokers and act as translators or intermediaries
  39. parentification - when a role reversal occurs and the child is put in the role of an adult, such as when a child is assigned to care for younger sibling or a child becomes an emotional confidante of a parent
    more risk of experiencing depressive symptoms (2017)
  40. Latino immigrant parents who feel connected as both Latino and Americans, report engaging in warmer parent-child reltaions and fewer aversive interactoins
  41. parent-child acculturation gap results in family problems but have a deleterious effect on children's mental health.  When there is a wide gap, parents are less warm, less likely to monitor or to reason with their adolescents. 
    Children feel unsupported and alienated from them.  risk adjustment problems such as depression and academic problems
  42. 13% native born live in poverty versus 15% foreign born
  43. Chinese immigrants value promoting physical closeness, family relatedness and interdepedence while de-emphasizing a child's individuality and uniqueness.
  44. 84% religious worldwide
    US
    70 christians
    22.8 non
    1.9 Judiasm
    2.3 are adherents of Islam, buddhism, or Hinduism
    95% mrried couples report a religious affliation
    90% want their childer to have some religious trainig
  45. World relations
    Christianity, Judisam and Islam share emphasis on the family and encourage parents to devote time and attention to children.
  46. Muslim women may work outside the home as long as it does not interfere with her important mission to be a mother and a wife.
  47. At their core religions are concerned with what is to be valued in life
  48. Religious people shared the values of kindness, tradition, and conformity, while they disdained hedonism
  49. 63 societies were more likely to value tradition, obedience, respect for authority and religious faith

    rather than independence and self-determination
  50. Puritans believed children were born with original sin and were instructed to break the will of children to socialize them into faithful adults
  51. Confucianism and Islam children were inherently good, and they emphasize the role that parents play in children's development
  52. African, South Asian and Native North American believe children are reincarnations of ancestral spirits
  53. Latin America, Caribbean countries, Northern Africa, Europe and South Asia, reveals parental assumptoins about spiritual vulnerability of children.

    Some parents believe the curse of an evil eye if you admire an infant with direct and extended look or lavish with praise and compliments.
  54. Religious is a positive influence
    encourages parental involvement and investment in children
    cultivates prosocial behavior, self-control, resistance to antisocial behavior, respect for authority figures and connectedness to others
  55. Religious parents tend to more likely be authoritative parents through exhibiting warmth, use of reasoning and positive reinforcement and use of consistent discipline
  56. Religious parents are more likely to enjoy positive relations with their children thand do less religious prents
  57. Old testament five proverbs encouraging physical punishment
    New testament rejects physical punishment
    Conservative christians have more positive attitudes and frequent use of physical punishment than other Christians
    Conservative Protestants were 2x as likely to use physical
  58. Christian and Muslim shared harsher discipline 
    African believe divine gifts and will be punished if cruel
    Christian mothers had the most restrictive and punitive attitudes of Christian, Muslim and Hindu
    Hindu has the least
    Christian are warmer and more protective than Muslims
  59. maladaptive influences from religtion
    distance from unmarried fathers, being too overbearing, controlling or intrusive, adopting an authoritarian parenting style, denying or ignoring problems and alienating a child due to religious teachings about divorce or homosexuality
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Cultural Diversity in U.S. Parents
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