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Public discourse on Asian parenting tends to fixate on ethnic culture as a static value set, disguising the fluidity and diversity of Chinese parenting. Such stereotypes also fail to account for the challenges of raising children in a rapidly modernizing world, full of globalizing values. In Raising Global Families, Pei-Chia Lan examines how ethnic Chinese parents in Taiwan and the United States negotiate cultural differences and class inequality to raise children in the contexts of globalization and immigration. She draws on a uniquely comparative, multisited research model with four groups of parents: middle-class and working-class parents in Taiwan, and middle-class and working-class Chinese immigrants in the Boston area. Despite sharing a similar ethnic cultural background, these parents develop class-specific, context-sensitive strategies for arranging their children's education, care, and discipline, and for coping with uncertainties provoked by their changing surroundings. Lan's cross-Pacific comparison demonstrates that class inequality permeates the fabric of family life, even as it takes shape in different ways across national contexts.

Objective In the present study, the cognitive theory of stress and coping was adopted as a framework and a mediation model was developed to investigate the long‐term effect of fathers' involvement in child care and mothers' appraisal of a supportive coparenting partnership (SCP) on postpartum depressed mood (PDM) and parenting self‐efficacy (PSE) in Taiwanese new mothers. Background Due to the risk of PDM and low PSE, many new mothers struggle with first‐time motherhood. It is therefore meaningful to investigate the benefits of potential protective factors that can reduce the risk of PDM and enhance PSE, such as fathers' involvement in child care and mothers' appraisal of an SCP, to improve new mothers' postpartum adjustment. Method Using secondary data from the nationwide longitudinal project Kids in Taiwan, we analyzed data provided by 2,020 Taiwanese new mothers at 3 and 6 months after delivery. We conducted structural equation modeling to test our hypothetical mediation model. Results Fathers' involvement in child care was significantly positively related to mothers' appraisal of an SCP, which in turn had a significant effect on reducing the risk of PDM and increasing PSE in Taiwanese new mothers both concurrently and 3 months later. Conclusion This study highlighted the concurrent and long‐term benefits of fathers' involvement in child care for new mothers' postpartum adjustment and the importance of new mothers' appraisal of an SCP as a significant mediator. Implications These findings warrant the attention and efforts of family life educators, marriage counselors, and other experts in related fields to promote better parenting experiences for new parents.

This study examines the relationships among maternal meta-emotion philosophy, maternal video-mediated cognitions, and adolescent behavior adjustment. We adopt video-mediated recall methods to obtain mothers’ perceptions of their interaction with their children. In total, 121 pairs of mothers (age, M = 42.55) and their adolescent children (age, M = 12.34) were videotaped for 10 min while discussing daily issues. The mothers reviewed the tape (30 episodes) and rated their own behaviors and the counterparts' behaviors on 8 cognitive or affective dimensions. The mothers also completed a parental meta-emotion philosophy inventory, and the adolescents completed the Youth Self-Report. The results indicate that maternal emotional dysfunction has a positive effect on adolescents’ externalizing problem behaviors through mothers’ perceptions of conflictual interaction. These findings highlight the importance of considering maternal meta-emotion philosophy in the mother-adolescent interaction process and understanding adolescent problem behaviors.

Psychological stress has been linked to developmental problems and poor health in children, but it is unclear whether it is also related to otitis media (OM). As part of a long-term study surveying the characteristics of childcare and development in Taiwan, we analyzed the relationship between OM and sources of psychological stress in children, such as poor maternal mental health and harsh parental discipline. We analyzed the data of 1998 children from the \"Kids in Taiwan: National Longitudinal Study of Child Development & Care (KIT) Project\" at the age of 3 years. Using bivariate and multivariate logistic regression models, we tested several risk factors as potential independent predictors of two outcomes: parent-reported incidence of OM and child health. The proportion of children who had developed OM in the first 3 years of their life was 12.5%. Daycare attendance (odds ratio [OR]: 1.475; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.063-2.046), poor maternal mental health (OR: 1.913; 95% CI: 1.315-2.784), and harsh parental discipline (OR: 1.091; 95% CI: 1.025-1.161) correlated with parent-reported occurrence of OM. These findings suggest that providing psychosocial support to both parents and children might be a novel strategy for preventing OM.

Childbearing behavior in East Asian countries has changed rapidly during the past half century from an average of five to seven children per family, to replacement-level fertility, and subsequently to unprecedentedly low levels, the lowest in the world. This article analyzes fertility trends in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan using cohort fertility data and methods, then examines social and economic causes of the childbearing trends, and surveys policies pursued to reverse the fertility trends. Postponement of childbearing started in the 1970s with continuously fewer delayed births being \"recuperated,\" which resulted in ultra-low fertility. A rapid expansion of education and employment among women in a patriarchal environment has generated a stark dilemma for women who would like to combine childbearing with a career. Policy responses have been slow, with a more serious attempt to address issues in recent years. Thus far public and private institutions are not devoting sufficient attention to generating broad social change supportive of parenting.

Parental explanatory models about autism influence the type of therapy a child receives, the child’s well-being, and the parents’ own psychological adaptation. This qualitative study explored explanatory models used by parents of children with autism. In-depth interviews were conducted with 13 parents of children with autism from a medical center in Taiwan. Despite high educational background, most of these parents attributed their child’s autism to both biomedical and supernatural etiologies without apparent conflicts. These parents chose a wide variety of treatment strategies, including biomedical and alternative treatments, which often created time/energy pressures and financial burden, and were influenced by parents’ cause attribution. Parents’ illness explanations influence their treatment selections and need to be understood and accepted by health care providers.

This study examines whether the mother’s nationality influenced children’s school adjustment and whether four dimensions of co-parenting and the mother’s parenting self-efficacy mediated the relationship between the mother’s nationality and children’s school adjustment in Taiwan. Teacher-student relationships and peer relationships were viewed as indicators of school adjustment. We analyzed data from 484 mother-child dyads, which were available from a 2015 project on the association between immigrant mothers’ parenting efficacy, co-parenting, and school-aged children’s life adjustment using structural equation modeling. Results revealed that Indonesian mothers’ offspring had poorer relationships with their teachers than children with mothers from mainland China, but mothers’ nationalities did not affect children’s relations with peers. With regard to children’s relationships with peers and teachers, children whose mothers were from Vietnam scored lower than their counterparts whose mothers were proficient in the Chinese language, but the difference was not significant. Our findings showed that undermining co-parenting and maternal parenting self-efficacy, rather than supportive co-parenting, spousal support, spousal involvement, child’s characteristics, and family backgrounds, fully mediated the association between mothers’ nationalities and the child’s relationship with teachers. Moreover, supportive co-parenting was found to be positively related to mothers’ parenting self-efficacy.HighlightsThere are differences inteacher-student relationships for children of immigrant mothers from different countries.Co-parenting and maternal parenting self-efficacy explain the adjustment gap between groups.The mediation effects of undermining co-parenting and mothers’ parenting self-efficacy are identified.Supporting co-parenting is positively related to maternal parenting self-efficacy.

Drawing on 55 interviews with older Taiwanese immigrants who relocated to the United States at an earlier life stage, the author argues that changing contextual features involved in the processes of international migration encourage and even demand aging immigrants to reconstruct cultural logics of aging and geriatric care. He develops the concept of reconfigured reciprocity to demonstrate how aging migrant populations transform cultural logics of intergenerational responsibility, obligation, and entitlement to reconcile the tension between ethnic tradition and modernity. First, he reveals how many of the respondents' lack of caregiving for their own parents undermines their sense of entitlement to receive care from younger generations. Furthermore, he highlights how the structural squeeze among work, family, and caregiving with which the younger generation struggles further discourages the respondents from relying on their children. Finally, the author underscores how aging immigrants evoke the concept of Americanization to reconstruct expectations of how they should be taken care of in their twilight years.

Inspired by Melvin Kohn and Annette Lareau's works, this paper aims to uncover the mechanisms of social reproduction practiced via after-school activities. The world's lowest fertility rate, patriarchal family system, and burgeoning cram institutes make Taiwan a solid case to explore. Drawing on data from the Youth Project from 2000 and 2001 (N=2,126), we examine, step-by-step, the associations between parents' social class, parents' child-rearing values, and children's after-school activity participation. By comparing maternal and paternal models, this paper demonstrates how Taiwanese parents carefully arranged the fabric of after-school time as an Asian version of concerted cultivation, and illustrates how cultural capital in Taiwan is practiced in the local context of parenting. Separate models on seven activities, including music, calligraphy, arts, dance, computer, sports and chess lessons, are investigated as well. By identifying the dynamic embedded within after-school activities, this paper contributes a fundamental understanding of after-school learning, a popular form of childhood socialization in East Asia. Inspiré par les travaux de Melvin Kohn et d'Annette Lareau, ce document vise à révéler les mécanismes de la reproduction sociale pratiqués par des activités parascolaires. Le taux de fertilité le plus bas du monde, un système familial patriarcal et l'essor d'instituts privés de formation aux examens scolaires font de Taiwan un cas solide à explorer. S'appuyant sur les données du « Youth Project » de 2000 et 2001 (N=2,126), nous examinons, étape par étape, les associations entre la classe sociale des parents, les valeurs parentales d'éducation des enfants et la participation à des activités parascolaires des enfants. En comparant les modèles maternels et paternels, cette étude montre comment les parents taïwanais ont soigneusement organisé l'emploi du temps après l'école comme une version asiatique de la culture concertée, et illustre comment le capital culturel à Taiwan est pratiqué dans le contexte local de la parentalité. Des modèles distincts sur sept activités dont la musique, la calligraphie, les arts, la danse, l'informatique, les sports et les leçons d'échecs sont étudiés. En identifiant la dynamique intégrée dans les activités parascolaires, cette étude apporte une compréhension fondamentale de l'apprentissage après l'école, une forme populaire de la socialisation de l'enfant en Asie de l'Est. Inspirado en los trabajos de Melvin Kohn y Annette Laraeau, este trabajo tiene como objetivo descubrir los mecanismos de reproducción social practicados a través de las actividades extraescolares. La tasa de fertilidad más baja del mundo, un sistema de familia patriarcal y las Academias en plena expansión hacen de Taiwán un caso sólido de exploración. Basados en los datos del Youth Project del 2000 y el 2001 (N=2,126) examinamos, paso a paso, las asociaciones entre la clase social de los padres, los valores de su crianza y la participación de los niños en las actividades extraescolares. Comparando los modelos maternos y paternos, este trabajo demuestra cómo los padres taiwaneses distribuyen cuidadosamente el horario extraescolar, como una versión asiática de la \"concerted cultivation\" (término introducido por Annette Lareau), e ilustra cómo el capital cultural en Taiwán es utilizado en el contexto local de la crianza. Modelos separados en siete actividades, incluyendo la música, la caligrafía, las artes, la danza, la informática, la educación física y las clases de ajedrez también son analizados. Identificando la dinámica del seno de las actividades extraescolares, este trabajo contribuye a la comprensión fundamental del aprendizaje extraescolar, una forma popular de socialización infantil en Asia del este.