Parenting Across Cultures

When parenting parents have their own beliefs and customs, and they share customs and beliefs with their families to guide and support their families. Parents want to be handed down from generation to generation, but when immigrants migrate other people to a country adapted to a new lifestyle (Two Parents, 2009). Immigration relocation provides family economic stability and better education. When immigrating to North America, some immigrants encounter obstacles, such as language barriers, disciplinary issues, and little involvement in children's education.

Intercultural child rearing can be difficult at times, especially when the value and expectation of a culture differs from the value and expectation of other cultures. This may make it hard to feel the family belongs to any community. However, as parents and carers find appropriate child-rearing styles, it helps the whole family to acquire cultural identity and attribution. This is particularly important for children as their sense of belonging and strong cultural identity support their mental health and happiness. There are many things that can help families acquire sense of belonging.

Cultural approach to parenting science has obvious necessity and significance. From a descriptive point of view, revealing human comprehensive parenting is very valuable. Research on intercultural child rearing also provides tests against the idea of ​​a child-centered worldview. Accepting discoveries from all cultures as "normative" for child rearing is too narrow, and it is not very prudent to get ready-made summaries from them to their parents. Cross-cultural comparisons are also valuable for deepening the understanding of biological variables that are integrated with environmental variables and experiences. Parenting needs to be considered within its socio-cultural context, cultural studies provide the necessary diversity to clarify the process.

While other parenting styles are associated culturally specific results, some parenting styles are associated with positive outcomes of different cultures. For example, authoritative child rearing is related to positive self esteem and academic achievement of Chinese and European American young people, but the positive influence of "minority" parenting style is unique to Chinese young people is. There is evidence not only of cultural differences but also of cultural environment. For example, the obedience and autonomy expectations of Mexican-American and African-American parents differ depending on the school and other social environments and families. Thus, in immigrant families, the way culture is cultivated may be the result of conscious enhancement over unconscious tradition.