Immigrant Parents Essay

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While different factors show the different outcomes in children of immigrant parents, it is also the moral support that is being given to these students. By the children’s parents support and expectations being higher, the effects on the children’s educational success changes. Students of those parents who have high expectations of them and that are involved tend to have a higher influence on the students' success (Carpenter 2008). As most Asian children tend to be successful in their education, Asian peers and family support are higher than Latinos for academics and are more likely to study together and help each other with difficult assignments (Fuligni 1997). This shows that as children have more support from their peers and family, and …show more content…

Although most immigrant parents do hold high expectations of their children education it varies through the different types of immigrant families. While Latinos are one of the largest growing immigrant populations they play a small role in the expectations of their children among the immigrant families (Carpenter 2008). Since most of the Latino immigrant families’ arrive and take on unskilled paying jobs, education expectations of the children do not reach those of Asians who are more educated than most Latinos. As Latinos seem to have lower expectations of their children’s education they are also more disposed to dropping out of school since education expectations are not high (Schmid 2001). In Schmid’s study, 30 percent of Latino young adults had dropped out, compared to 8.6 percent of non-Hispanic white young adults and 12.1 percent of non-Latino black young adults (2001). This shows that as Latinos hold lower expectations for their children’s education they are more likely on the path to fail in their education. Also as the parents value of education is lower, they are also less likely to hold higher expectations of their children’s education. As Latino immigrant parents held lower expectations of their children compared to Asians, Asian students significantly outperformed Latino peers in their education (Carpenter

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