ABSTRACT
Communication between parents and children was unquestionably the more developed sphere in the Latino households of the active Comite de Padres Latinos (COPLA) members. Although everyone is inclined to change given their specific family, community and personal direction, cultural proteanism occurs only through collective work and through vision for common goals that empower individuals, families and communities — a trust assumed by COPLA in supporting those with common history and experience. Through their work with COPLA parents display their strengths. Women who are active in COPLA work in nurseries, factories, schools and other locations alongside those who are not as aware about schooling in the United States. Adults who were leaders in COPLA reported shifts in their family relationships as a result of their participation in COPLA. They became aware that their low school attainment in Mexico need not interfere with their high expectations for their children's education but they also realized that high expectations were insufficient.
