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AbstractThis study examined Taiwanese–Canadian mothers' conceptions of personal freedom in everyday situations for their children and the influence of acculturation on their beliefs. Forty mothers of six‐ to eight‐year‐old children participated in a semistructured interview and sorting task. Interview responses revealed that, regardless of acculturation, child decision‐making was important and that mothers should negotiate and compromise with their child on everyday issues such as clothing, food, activities, daily routine and homework. They believed that child resistance was motivated by the children's personal interests, laziness, limit testing and their emotional state. Sources of conflict were resolved by parental authority, discussing/negotiating and conceding to the child. The sorting task also revealed that personal issues were judged as within their children's jurisdiction.

AbstractFathering in the 21st century has gained significant prominence among scholars who have acknowledged the relevance of fathers in families. However, our understanding of diverse fathering in various contexts such as immigrant and ethnic minority contexts, "nontraditional" fathers (e.g., foster fathers), has significantly lagged . Thus, this collection of articles, Contextualizing Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives on Ethnic Minority and Diverse Fathers, includes five papers that challenge contemporary theories and methodologies to bring greater insights into the complexities of fathering and fatherhood. These articles are intended to encourage researchers to critically reflect on the contexts and diversity of fathers (e.g., immigrant, diverse ethnic backgrounds) and whether theories need to be modified or components of the theory need greater attention to be more reflective of fathers of today.

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. Describes innovative methodologies for studying immigrant family relationships. Bridges the knowledge gap between immigrant and non-immigrant family studies. Establishes the relevance of these data to the wider family literature. Challenges long-held assumptions about immigrant families and parenting. 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

"This edited book focuses on immigrant and refugee children around the world and will provide readers with a richer and more comprehensive approach of how researchers, practitioners, and social policymakers can examine immigrant children and youth among ethnic minority families. Also, the chapters will focus on the various methodological advances used to explicitly investigate immigrant children and youth"--

ObjectiveThis research explores fathers' construction of fathering to expand knowledge on the behavioral, cognitive, and affective domains of father involvement, focusing on middle childhood in ethnic minority families.BackgroundFathers' contributions to children's development and socialization have received increasing attention since the 1970s. Although exploration of ethnic minority fathers has increased, the literature on ethnic and minority fathers is limited because insight into fathers living outside North America continues to be understudied.MethodThis study employed a qualitative methodology from a social constructivist perspective and a bioecological model to contextualize fathering in Afro‐Jamaican families. Phenomenological thematic analysis (PTA) was used, focusing on 24 semistructured interviews from five biological and 19 biological and social Afro‐Jamaican fathers.ResultsUsing Palkovitz's (1997) conceptualization of fathering, including behavioral, affective, and cognitive domains, phenomenological thematic analysis was extended to include the spiritual domain. Furthermore, fathers reported being engaged with their biological and social children in similar ways.ConclusionThese findings highlight the need for researchers to explore both the universal and culturalized aspects of fathering in cultural contexts.ImplicationsFathers should be supported through social policies and program intervention to encourage fathers to be involved in children's lives in multiple ways.

The immigrant experience stands at a dynamic intersection of transition and change. Questions regarding acclimation and assimilation are often at the fore, especially when contrasting cultures confront one another on matters of gender and parenting, and when parents and children face new expectations of themselves, each other, and their new home. Gender Roles in Immigrant Families examines the complex societal, generational, and individual processes involved in constructing gender, ethnicity, and identity as families adapt to new cultural surroundings. The experiences of immigrant mothers, fathers, children, and youth provide readers with insights into coparenting, language brokering, power and responsibilities in families, and gendered aspects of development. Situations as varied as Turkish immigrants in Belgium and Mexicans in the U.S. highlight not only similarities and differences between cultures, but also the continuing flexibility and fluidity of human behavior. Among the studies featured: A critical exploration of Chinese fathers in Canada and China. Fathers' and mothers' perceptions of their children's psychosocial behaviors in Mexican immigrant families. Social support in the lives of Sudanese refugee and Russian immigrant fathers in Canada. Gendered conceptions of ethnicity: Latino children in middle childhood. Gender and developmental pathways of acculturation and adaptation in immigrant adolescents. Past advances and future directions in research and policy. An in-depth exploration of an often-overlooked area for research, Gender Roles in Immigrant Families will provide family and developmental psychologists, social workers, sociologists, and policymakers a greater understanding of gender in the social identity.

Bicultural Identity: Which Kind of Biculturalism for Whom? -- Adaptation and Identity Formation in the Israeli Diaspora -- Black Immigrant Youth's Adoption of Black English as Entry into the Black American Peer Group and Evidence of Cultural Identity Development -- Immigrant African Culture Heritage Youth Identities in Australia -- Immigrant Youth Narratives: Literacy Project -- First Year College Experiences of Latinos from Immigrant Families: Ethnic Identity as a Protective Process -- Performing a Trio in a Promised Land: Influences of Immigration and Culture on Parenting and Children's Academic Identity Development across the Lifespan -- Role-Based Identity Development in Ethnic Minority Children from Immigrant Families: The Development of Language Broker Role Identity -- "Jalos," USA: Transnational Community and Identity among California Immigrants -- Learning to Care: Work Experiences and Identity Formation among African Immigrant Care Workers.

The fatherhood scholarship has made much theoretical progress over the past decades, yet existing models and concepts continue to draw primarily on WEIRD-centric assumptions. This review uses demographically sizeable, culturally significant, yet understudied and under-theorized Chinese fathers as an example to reveal the limitations of applying WEIRD-centric perspectives in studying fathering and fatherhood. Specifically, existing models and concepts of fathering and fatherhood, with anemphasis on father involvement, especially in rough-and-tumble play, are predicatedon the assumptionsof nuclear family and western hegemonic masculinity. The Chinese cultural tradition, in contrast, endorses a literatus masculinity and emphasizes the family lineage, therebyencouraging fathers' educational involvement and inviting grandparental care. These cultural traditions intersect with unfolding social developments in contemporaryChinese societies to shape fathering ideals and practices. A full, routine inclusion of non-WEIRD fathers, such as Chinese fathers, promises tobenefit the scholarship on fathering and fatherhood as a whole.

AbstractScholars have recently been paying greater attention to cultural and cross‐cultural research. However, studies have primarily been on between‐group comparisons, using White North American samples as a baseline. This approach results in misleading conclusions that overemphasize intergroup and underemphasize intragroup differences. We focus on Chinese families because they account for one‐fifth of the world's population, yet the understanding of Chinese families is limited. Our broad objective is a call to action, emphasizing the importance of moving beyond global and superficial assessments of Chinese parenting. On the basis of Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model, we critically explore the intra‐ and intergroup intricacies of Chinese parenting to illustrate how the study of culture and Chinese parenting has developed over the years. We provide in‐depth context for the various Chinese societies (i.e., China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan) and recent social transformations that emphasize the importance of considering the exo‐ and macrosystems.

1. The Complexities of Asian Families from Around the World: Creating New Lives in Canada and the United States -- Part A: History, Religion, and Culture -- 2. Comparing and Contrasting Asian Families in Canada and the United States -- 3. Asian Families: Religion, Spirituality, and Worldviews -- Part B: Specific Countries and Regions of Origin -- East Asia -- 4. Chinese Families from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan -- 5. Growing up in Two Worlds: Young Chinese Americans in New York City -- 6. Japanese Families -- 7. Korean Families -- South Asia -- 8. Bangladeshi Families -- 9. Indian Families -- 10. Pakistani Families -- West Asia -- 11. Arab Families from the Levant -- Part C: Counseling and Therapy for Mental Health and Wellbeing -- 12. Asian-Origin Families in Canada and the United States: Challenges and Resilience -- 13. Providing Therapy with Asian Immigrant Families: A Review of Prominent Issues and Treatment Considerations -- Part D: Methodology Considerations -- 14. Critically Assessing the Methodological Challenges of Exploring Chinese.

AbstractFatherhood scholarship has made much theoretical progress over the past decades, yet existing models and concepts continue to draw primarily on western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD)‐centric assumptions. This review uses demographically sizeable, culturally significant, yet understudied and undertheorized Chinese fathers as an example to reveal the limitations of applying WEIRD‐centric perspectives when studying fathering and fatherhood. Specifically, existing models and concepts of fathering and fatherhood, with an emphasis on father involvement, especially in rough‐and‐tumble play, are predicated on the assumptions of nuclear family and western hegemonic masculinity. The Chinese cultural tradition, in contrast, endorses a literatus masculinity and emphasizes the family lineage, thereby encouraging fathers' educational involvement and inviting grandparental care. These cultural traditions intersect with unfolding social developments in contemporary Chinese societies to shape fathering ideals and practices. A full, routine inclusion of non‐WEIRD fathers, such as Chinese fathers, promises to benefit the scholarship on fathering and fatherhood as a whole.