This article focuses on the experiences of transnational Latinx youth and families through historias shared by mothers. Transnational communities such as those from immigrant backgrounds have acquired critical perspectives because their in across borders that become central to understanding how navigate learning U.S. context. As such, about border-crossing knowledge literacies students, familie...

Abstract Mothers who are at risk of losing custody their children represent a vulnerable population whose voices seldom heard. Exploring perspectives parenting, child and the relationship with child—their ‘parenting representations’—can improve our understanding struggles inform interventions. Research in this area so far has been predominantly quantitative, meaning valuable information about s...

This article analyzes the emotional lives of Syrian refugee mothers in first year their recent resettlement Canada. Drawing on two waves interviews with 41 newcomer mothers, we find three main affective themes narratives: gratitude, discontent, and dissent. Together, they capture a reality term fragile obligation, which reflects coexisting conditions migratory indebtedness, disappointment, crit...

Postpartum depression has been described as a dangerous thief that robs mothers of the love and happiness they expected to feel toward their newborn babies. Even though the number of qualitative studies on postpartum depression is increasing, knowledge development will be impeded unless the rich understandings gleaned from these studies are synthesized. Using Noblit and Hare's 1988 approach, th...

To better understand the needs of fathers who experience health inequities, we individually interviewed fathers, mothers, and service providers about their perspectives supports for men in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, one most disadvantaged groups Canada. Using a gender lens, thematic analysis transcribed interviews with three cohorts revealed following themes: “we need He-way”: Fathers argui...

Associations among parents', teachers', and children's self-reports of internalizing and externalizing child behavior problems were examined in two studies. In the first, both teachers' and parents' reports were modestly and independently associated with children's self-reported behavior problems. In the second, mothers' and fathers' reports of their children's behavior problems were moderately...

Research is lacking on differing perspectives regarding custody cases involving domestic violence (DV). In a survey of judges, legal aid attorneys, private attorneys, DV program workers, and child custody evaluators (n = 1,187), judges, private attorneys, and evaluators were more likely to believe that mothers make false DV allegations and alienate their children. In response to a vignette, eva...