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Studies on childrearing practices within migrant populations generally use a recurring scheme, where migrant families are compared to native families.
Breastfeeding provides a compelling window into women's early experiences of motherhood, and of the cultural narratives, they draw upon to both guide their childrearing practices and to make sense of their experiences.
Some recent studies have shown how "Chinese" models of parenting are being recast in "modern" (and often Westernized) ways (Brainer 2015 and Lan 2014 on Taiwan, Kuan 2015 on mainland China), taking the form of what Lan (2014) calls "glocal entanglements" as parents attempt to integrate newly-introduced and more traditional childrearing practices.
These childrearing practices may sound shocking to us in the U.S. because we assume that children aren't ready for these kinds of tasks.
Our approach to assessing parenting styles considers two independent dimensions (nurturance and monitoring) along which childrearing practices may be conceptualized.
Long standing policies and programs that have attempted to assimilate Aboriginal children such as residential schools have had negative impacts for childrearing practices.
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Childrearing and mothering practices also serve as a context in which hierarchical social and moral divisions can be made, as suzhi, tiaojian, and mothering practices become new ways to mark urban/rural as well as class divides (Murphy 2004).
A subsequent report, Guambiano World-View for Integral Attention for Early Childhood and Re-Valorization of the Guambiano Education Project (available in Spanish), documents the methodology and cultural childrearing patterns and practices for health, nutrition and early childhood education.
In the discussion below, we consider how cultural ideologies about motherhood and childrearing are expressed through practices of infant feeding, and breastfeeding in particular.
This pressure is particularly intense for middle-class mothers, who may practice a childrearing style called concerted cultivation, an approach identified by Annette Laureau in the early 2000s.
A sociological perspective on motherhood and childrearing enables us to view the practices that people use to care for their children as socially constructed and not the product of biological imperatives or individual idiosyncrasies.
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