ERIC Number: EJ992011
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Publication Date: 2012
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Family Functioning and Early Learning Practices in Immigrant Homes
Jung, Sunyoung; Fuller, Bruce; Galindo, Claudia
Child Development, v83 n5 p1510-1526 Sep-Oct 2012
Poverty-related developmental-risk theories dominate accounts of uneven levels of household functioning and effects on children. But immigrant parents may sustain norms and practices--stemming from heritage culture, selective migration, and social support--that buffer economic exigencies. "Comparable" levels of social-emotional functioning in homes of foreign-born Latino mothers were observed relative to native-born Whites, despite sharp social-class disparities, but learning activities were much "weaker", drawing on a national sample of mothers with children aging from 9 to 48 months (n = 5,300). Asian-heritage mothers reported "weaker" social functioning--greater martial conflict and depression--yet "stronger" learning practices. Mothers' migration history, ethnicity, and social support helped to explain levels of functioning, after taking into account multiple indicators of class and poverty. (Contains 5 tables.)
Descriptors: Immigrants, Parent Child Relationship, Depression (Psychology), Migration, Poverty, Mothers, Child Development, Risk, Social Development, Emotional Development, Social Support Groups, Hispanic Americans, Whites, Social Differences, Conflict, Marriage, Social Class, Asian Americans, Ethnicity, Cultural Background, Child Rearing, Infants, Toddlers, Young Children, Learning Activities, Family Environment, Story Reading
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