Latino Families Broken by Immigration
Subtitle: The Adolescent's Perceptions (New Americans (Lfb Scholarly Publishing Llc).)
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC
Published: April 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781931202633
Subjects: Politics - Current Events; Sociology; Mental health; Emigration & Immigration; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Parental deprivation; Social Work; Attachment behavior in children; Emigration and immigration; Political Science / Social Services & Welfare; Social Science-Emigration & Immigration; Social Science-Social Work; Attachment behavior in adolescence; Ethnic Studies - General; Adolescent psychiatry; Attachment behavior in adolesc; Hispanic American teenagers
First sentence: A common pattern of immigration among Central American families is that the mother, father, or both parents will come to the United States by themselves, leaving their children in the care of extended family in the country of origin.