ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how socioeconomic change has affected the contexts in which children are reared in a Mexican town from which migration to Los Angeles and Chicago is frequent. Its central point is that the Mexican communities generating migrants to the United States have been changing as environments for child development, particularly in their conditions of health, fertility, parental education, and media exposure, as well as in their family attitudes, childrearing practices, and differentiation by socioeconomic status (SES).
