Certain aspects of discipline vary with cultural expectations of children, beliefs about appropriate child behavior and preferred methods of physical discipline. It is easier to intervene with corporal punishment if we understand its roots in particular communities and families. Harsh corporal punishment, physical abuse and culture This article aims to facilitate mental health providers’ ability to approach immigrant caretakers with support and compassion while safeguarding the welfare of their children. This article focuses on those immigrant families who face the most challenges regarding their discipline practices - those who use physical punishment in a manner that might be considered “harsh” or “abusive” according to the standards of their state, or those whose methods of corporal punishment might be unfamiliar to professionals from different cultures. Immigrants who don’t speak English, are less acculturated, nonwhite, and lower socioeconomic status (SES), are apt to face the same kinds of biases as their nonimmigrant neighbors who are also nonwhite and lower SES (Lee, Bell & Ackerman-Brimberg, 2015), with the added possible burdens of language issues, documentation status and anti-immigrant sentiment. Given the great diversity among immigrant families, it is difficult to make assertions about their corporal punishment practices and even the challenges they face if they get caught up in the child protective services system.
While not evenly distributed throughout the U.S., immigrant families reside not only in cities but also in rural and suburban areas where work and housing are available (Schaefer & Mattingly, 2016). population has either emigrated from another country, or has at least one parent who has done so (Brown & Stepler, 2016). population was foreign-born, with another 11.9 percent of the population having at least one immigrant parent - thus about one quarter of the U.S.
vary by race, language, religion, education, income prior to and after immigration, family composition, immigration status and a host of other factors.
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