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Encouraging Hispanic Fathers To Become More Effectively Involved In Their Children's Lives, Enoch Aguilar
Encouraging Hispanic Fathers To Become More Effectively Involved In Their Children's Lives, Enoch Aguilar
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Problem
When Hispanic people immigrate to the United States, they come with their own traditions, ideas, and values. Many of these values and teachings are different from North American values, however, each system strives to achieve similar goals in forming functional families. Many of these values conflict with traditional North American values. This natural conflict can make the transition from their native countries to the United States difficult, especially when analyzing the different ways each country’s government intervenes on behalf of children. If parents are unable to modify the social norms of their native country to allow the child to …