ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the special challenges faced by voluntary migrants and summarizes contemporary research on international immigrant parenthood. It begins with a description of the demographic scope of immigrant parenthood and shows that parenting is a principal mode of cultural and accultural transmission. The chapter focuses on factors that influence immigrant parents’ acculturation and their parenting. The factors are time, domain, personological characteristics, setting, and process. The chapter discusses international research on immigrant parents. Personal characteristics of immigrant parents that can influence acculturation include, predominantly, individual differences in personality, gender, and social and cognitive skills. Parental acculturation is moderated by setting condition. Individual differences in psychological acculturation characterize the same cultural group acculturating at the same historical period to the same new culture. International research on parenting cognitions and practices and parenting effects demonstrates that each is influenced by the cultural context in which parents are rearing children.
