Asian American Parenting and Parent-Adolescent Relationships

* Addresses the growing interest in Asian American family lives and adolescent development
• Presents distinct methods of study for understanding the cultural distinctiveness of Asian American parent-adolescent relationships
• Provides empirical data comparing the experiences of subgroups of Asian Americans, including Chinese and Filipino Americans
• Compares the interaction and development of Asian American and European American families
• Offers perspectives across multiple disciplines The growing presence of non-European cultures in America brings new challenges to as well as opportunities for parenting research. Whereas particular constructs of parent-child relationships were once considered universal, we now recognize distinct cultural variations. This is especially true in the case of Asian Americans, a population encompassing many diverse ethnicities. Informed by a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodologies including detailed surveys of teenagers and their parents, Asian American Parenting and Parent-Adolescent Relationships focuses on Chinese and Filipino Americans-large populations with markedly different histories and cultural influences-giving readers a new lens into the nature and meaning of cultural differences in parenting. Synthesizing data on adolescent autonomy and dependence, parental support and control (both crucial to adolescents' wellbeing), and the rarely-explored concept of parental sacrifice, this ambitious volume:
• Compares the parental belief systems of European Americans and immigrant Chinese and their influence on parenting styles.
• Discusses the role of measurement equivalence in understanding Asian American parenting practices.
• Examines sacrifice as a central concept in Asian American parenting and in immigrant parenting in general.
• Analyzes how Asian American teenagers understand the support and control provided by their parents.
• Explores the dynamics of parent and child ge