Domestic and Kinship Networks of Some American-Born Children of Haitian Immigrants

This chapter focuses on the domestic and kinship networks of some American-born children of Haitian immigrants in the New York metropolitan area. Its aim is to enlarge our understanding of the influence of social networks on the development of social competence in children by providing comparative data from a group in which (1) a child is never just a child of one mother and father but, rather, the child of an entire set of kin; and (2) children typically spend no more time with their mothers than with others in the extended family, including many adults and children of varying ages.