Family Values From Adoption and Immigrant Households
Faculty Mentor(s) Name(s)
Tsu-Ming Chiang
Abstract
Family values vary from household to household. Each family has principles that they uphold and unique aspects on how they function and work together. However, when looking at a family with adopted kids, families must work together to accommodate these children, possibly by changing family dynamics and values. Foster and adopted children oftentimes have conflicting feelings on their situation and identification with who they are, and where they stand to fit in a family dynamic (Fineran 2012). Children in foster care who had more of an attachment adoption style to their foster families had more benefits than children who did not. Children who stayed more in contact with their biological family did not seem to mix well with the foster family they were staying with (Sinclair 2005). This finding may suggest that family values may be hard to implement with foster children who are still in contact with their biological families. The immigrant parent(s) many times have family values that the child may not identify with or live by. However, that doesn’t mean that the difference in family values affect the care and importance they have for each other. According to a 2008 study, families create strong emotional ties that bond members together. Even young people who resent parental constraints and obligations feel, at the same time, a complex combination of affection, loyalty, gratitude, responsibility, and a sense of duty to their immigrant parents (Suarez-Orozco et al. 2008). Yet, the impact of having immigrant parents alter and shape their children's family values. This present study is thus aimed to examine how adoptive families and immigrant household values differ. Its purpose is to study how the adopted child adapts or is willing to adapt to the family values of the family. Similarly, the study examines whether the child of an immigrant parent(s) is open to accept their parents' family values or if they choose the family values of the society they are growing up in. The data is being collected through an online self-report survey, distributed to college students in the Southeast of the United States. The results contrasting different types of families, adopted and immigrant, will be shared and discussed at the conference
Start Date
27-3-2024 9:00 AM
End Date
27-3-2024 9:50 AM
Location
Magnolia Ballroom
Family Values From Adoption and Immigrant Households
Magnolia Ballroom
Family values vary from household to household. Each family has principles that they uphold and unique aspects on how they function and work together. However, when looking at a family with adopted kids, families must work together to accommodate these children, possibly by changing family dynamics and values. Foster and adopted children oftentimes have conflicting feelings on their situation and identification with who they are, and where they stand to fit in a family dynamic (Fineran 2012). Children in foster care who had more of an attachment adoption style to their foster families had more benefits than children who did not. Children who stayed more in contact with their biological family did not seem to mix well with the foster family they were staying with (Sinclair 2005). This finding may suggest that family values may be hard to implement with foster children who are still in contact with their biological families. The immigrant parent(s) many times have family values that the child may not identify with or live by. However, that doesn’t mean that the difference in family values affect the care and importance they have for each other. According to a 2008 study, families create strong emotional ties that bond members together. Even young people who resent parental constraints and obligations feel, at the same time, a complex combination of affection, loyalty, gratitude, responsibility, and a sense of duty to their immigrant parents (Suarez-Orozco et al. 2008). Yet, the impact of having immigrant parents alter and shape their children's family values. This present study is thus aimed to examine how adoptive families and immigrant household values differ. Its purpose is to study how the adopted child adapts or is willing to adapt to the family values of the family. Similarly, the study examines whether the child of an immigrant parent(s) is open to accept their parents' family values or if they choose the family values of the society they are growing up in. The data is being collected through an online self-report survey, distributed to college students in the Southeast of the United States. The results contrasting different types of families, adopted and immigrant, will be shared and discussed at the conference