title: "Growing up" children: current child-rearing practices among immigrant Jamaican families.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore and describe current child-rearing practices within immigrant Jamaican families living in the United States.
  
  
  METHODS
  This ethnographic study (N = 16, ages 9-60+) sought to gain an emic perspective of participants' experience with the phenomenon. Interpretive interactionism as a method looked at the process of child rearing in order to uncover meaning of significant events related to this practice.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Historical factors affecting the parents' own growing up experience and their experience with and perception of dominant culture values guided their child-rearing practices.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The goal of child rearing for this immigrant group centered on raising a spiritual, respectful, knowledgeable, and competent child who would be equipped with necessary skills to survive in this society.
authors.affiliation: Lienhard School of Nursing, Pace University, Pleasantville, NY, USA. eyearwood@fsmail.pace.edu
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Yearwood
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing / Q000208:ethnology*; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005195:Family Relations / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007563:Jamaica / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012945:Social Values / Q000208:ethnology; D014481:United States