ABSTRACT
This chapter is about the diverse strategies that parents and other caregivers pursue in their efforts to transmit a minority language to their children. By focusing on individual cases of Spanish maintenance, we would not wish to foster the impression that all the families we worked with are dedicated to the goal of maintaining Spanish, either as a personal goal or as an idealized societal construct. To be sure, an overwhelming majority of families expressed a commitment to maintenance of Mexican culture and traditions. However, for reasons explored in chapter 3, some of these do not view active support for the Spanish language as a necessary strategy in pursuit of this goal.
