They are in a setting that they have never see before. They have more freedom at school, more freedom to stay out late at night, better schools, better food, more affluence. Normally in a traditional culture girls may not date until they are 17 or 18, but in this culture they can go out when they are as young as 10 or 11. And boys too, they can stay out late. The baggy pants and caps turned around.
Foster parents do a great job at what they do, but it is different.
A lot of teenage kids don't want to go back to obeying their parents and will do things to end up back in foster care. Siempre Padres Always Parenting Ocampo worked with the Los Angeles Unified School District to create a parenting curriculum for Latino parents called Siempre Padres, Always Parenting. The course includes the laws on corporal punishment and positive discipline methods, acculturation, and guidance on how parents should interact with the schools, and most important, the need for parents to spend quality time with their children. One of Ocampo's greatest regrets is that he was not able to spend quality time with his father. Like many, his father expressed his love by being a good provider, which meant working all hours to run a successful business.