"Growing up" children: Current child-rearing practices among immigrant jamaican families

Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 7-17

  Yearwood, Edilma L ^a  

^a PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child rearing; Growing up; Immigrant; Jamaican family

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD REARING; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAMAICA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD REARING; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAMAICA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENTS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL VALUES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035240570     PISSN: 10736077     EISSN: 17446171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6171.2001.tb00284.x     Document Type: Article

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