Beliefs About Mothers' and Fathers' Roles and the Division of Child Care and Household Labor in Indo-Caribbean Immigrants With Young Children

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 173-182

  Roopnarine, Jaipaul L ^a   Krishnakumar, Ambika ^a   Xu, YiLi ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

belief systems; Caribbean immigrant families; child care and household labor; creolization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHILD CARE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MALE; PARENTAL ATTITUDE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CARIBBEAN REGION; CHILD; CHILD REARING; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FATHER-CHILD RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65549105376     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015322     Document Type: Article

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