Sentences with phrase «between immigrant parents»

Ross Douthat declared it a defect that the movie requires Kumail, its Pakistan - born protagonist, to choose between his immigrant parents» religious faith and the American girl he loves.

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Finding the right balance between religion - based norms and the demands of adjusting to a society based on quite different norms would be difficult enough, especially given the students» awareness that their immigrant parents bring both Muslim and ethnic sensibilities that need to be disentangled from each other.

The report offers a number of concrete solutions for building stronger and more meaningful partnerships between schools, immigrant parents, and community leaders....

Lam's first book, a collection of interconnected short stories, opens with «How To Get Into Medical School, Part 1, a story which at first glance treads familiar territory - an Asian girl of first generation immigrant parents finds herself torn between her budding love for fellow medical student Fitz (an unsuitable boy by dint of him not being Asian) and her drive to succeed at the highest level as a medical student.

The Sohn household faces the challenge of immigrant parents with American - born children and the conflict between assimilation and the upholding of Korean culture.

Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on whether guests are over and how much alcohol has been consumed.

Having been born of immigrant parents and grown up between Nicaragua and San Francisco, a strong awareness of inequality and discrimination was established at an early age.

Previous studies1 3 6 have reported that immigrant parents encounter obstacles in their parenting in the host country (eg, insufficient information about the parenting system, role change and power conflict between parents and children, all of which contribute to stress in parenting).

Our comparative, multivocal ethnographic study of teachers in five U.S. cities in a number of early childhood settings suggests that immigrant teachers often experience difficulty applying their cultural knowledge to the education and care of young children of immigrants because they face a dilemma between their pedagogical training and their cultural knowledge; between the expectations of their fellow teachers and of parents; and between the goals of being culturally responsive to children, families, and their community and being perceived as professional by their fellow teachers and their superiors.

Within immigrant families, family allocentrism, rather than interdependence, tends to be a more effective means of transmitting preferences for traditional mates between parents and children [24, 25].

Parents» encouragement of children's literacy influenced the differential outcomes between Latina and black immigrants» children.

This paper investigates the relationship between the frequency of parent - adolescent conflict and the quality of adaptation of immigrant Albanian adolescents and of their native Greek classmates.

In the present study, we test the relationship between food insecurity in early childhood (before age 4 1/2) and children's symptoms of depression / anxiety, aggression, and hyperactivity / inattention up to age 8, accounting for child and familial characteristics which may be associated with food insecurity and children's mental health [16], [20]: child's sex, immigrant status, family structure, maternal age at child's birth, family income, maternal and paternal education, prenatal tobacco exposure, maternal and paternal depression, family functioning and negative parenting.

In a birth cohort study, risk of psychosis in adulthood was raised by a factor of 4 if the mother, during pregnancy, reported that a baby was unwanted.49 Separation from parents in early life has been found to predict an increased risk of psychosis in genetically vulnerable children, 50,51 and the association between immigrant status and severe mental illness may be at least partially explained by the high rates of early separation in migrant populations.52 Adolescents at high genetic risk of psychosis have also been found to be at increased risk of psychosis in later life if they report adverse relationships with their parents.53