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Families with Diverse Cultural Backgrounds: Videos

In these videos, migrant parents from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds share their experiences of parenting and raising children in Australia.

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Raising Children Network Staff
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How I’m Raising My Daughter to Be 100 Percent, Unapologetically Indigenous

I want my daughter to see that an Indigenous way of life isn’t an alternative lifestyle but a priority. It is essential, then, that I return to the parenting principles of my ancestors and consciously integrate Indigenous kinship practices into her childhood.

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Andrea Landry
2021
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A Child Raised by Many Mothers: What We Can Learn about Parenthood from an Indigenous Group in Brazil

The Kraho people believe a child should have more than one mother. It’s so ingrained in the culture that the Kraho children use the word “inxe” for both their biological mother and their mother’s sisters or the women their mother considers as sisters, even if they’re not related by blood.

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Sofia Perpetua
2019
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Is the Western Way of Raising Kids Weird?

From sleeping in separate beds to their children to transporting them in prams, Western parents have some unusual ideas about how to raise them.

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Kelly Oakes
2021
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Raising My Kids to Be Unapologetic American Muslims

Growing up, I practiced my faith quietly. Now I want my children to be loud about theirs.

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Dilshad D. Ali
2018
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I Became a Mother at 25, and I’m Not Sorry I Didn’t Wait

No career comes without risk, but early career precarity and minimal savings certainly raise the stakes of having kids in one’s 20s.

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Elizabeth Bruenig
2021
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Two New Moms Return to Work—One in Seattle, One in Stockholm

Sarah-in-Seattle and Sarah-in-Stockholm are both white, middle-class, married, professional women with babies and toddlers at home. But their experiences as working mothers returning to work after giving birth could not have been more different.

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Caitlyn Collins
2020
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20 Ways to Be a Jewish Mother

Today we are going to spend a considerable amount of time discussing the desirable characteristics of such mothers. A quick disclaimer -- these characteristics do not apply to all Jewish mamas and they are a bit stereotypical but let's have a little fun today praising the often critiqued.

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Barbara Greenberg
2016
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Lessons for White Parents Raising Black Children

Raising children to thrive in a society that judges them—sometimes harshly and, in extreme cases, fatally—because of skin color is hard regardless of your ethnicity.

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Debby Waldman
2020
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The Double Culture Shock of Becoming a Mom While Living Abroad

You’ve probably heard of culture shock, the feeling of disorientation a person feels when faced with another culture, way of life, or set of attitudes. For me, it was twofold: I was in a new country and I was a new mom, two ways in which my own life suddenly felt utterly unfamiliar.

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Olga Mecking
2017
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