Family Obligation, Caregiving, and Loss of Leisure: The Experiences of Three Caregivers

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-49
Author(s):  
Nancy Brattain Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Family Obligation

Making a Living Together

Kids at Work ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 83-98
Author(s):  
Emir Estrada
Keyword(s):  
Work Effort ◽  
Family Obligation ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Working Together

Chapter 4 shows the children's resiliency that results from experiencing their parents’ position of oppression, which helps prevent an authority shift in favor of the children. Consequently, the children respect their parents’ work effort and report feeling closer to their parents. As a result of working together, children become keenly aware of the financial household and street vending obligations. I call this economic empathy and argue that this level of empathy is born when families develop a communal family obligation code. The chapter covers different forms of tensions between children and their parents and how children engage in family bartering with their parents. These street vending children feel torn between their responsibility to help their parents and their desire to enjoy a “normal” childhood. Overall, economic empathy can serve to buffer against dissonant acculturation.

scholarly journals Socioeconomic Stress and Academic Adjustment Among Asian American Adolescents: The Protective Role of Family Obligation

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 837-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Kiang ◽  
Kandace Andrews ◽  
Gabriela L. Stein ◽  
Andrew J. Supple ◽  
Laura M. Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Academic Adjustment ◽  
Protective Role ◽  
Family Obligation ◽  
Asian American Adolescents ◽  
Socioeconomic Stress

Adolescents' family obligation and activities in rural and urban Vietnam: Implications for social change

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heejung Park ◽  
Bahr Weiss ◽  
Lam T. Trung ◽  
Victoria K. Ngo ◽  
Anna S. Lau
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Family Obligation ◽  
Rural And Urban

Family Obligation Fulfillment Among Southeast Asian American Young Adults

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 1355-1383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica M. Trieu
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Parental Expectations ◽  
Children Of Immigrants ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Family Obligations ◽  
Family Obligation ◽  
And Behaviors

Recent studies have shown that particular groups of second-generation Asian Americans exhibit high rates of fulfilling their family obligations. Drawing on 50 in-depth interviews with second-generation Vietnamese and Chinese Vietnamese young adults in Southern California, this article highlights a previously overlooked factor in family obligation literature: the influence that parental expectations have on children of immigrants’ family obligation sentiments and behaviors. There are four behavioral types that emerged from the data: expected contributors, unexpected contributors, expected noncontributors, and unexpected noncontributors. An analysis of the different types reveals that parental expectations—born from structural circumstances of economic need and ethnic cultural practices—influence respondents’ attitudes and behaviors toward fulfilling these financial family obligations. I conclude with implications for future research on family obligation behaviors among the children of immigrants.

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