ZERO TO THREE
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Zerotothree is a national, nonprofit organization that provides parents, professionals and policymakers the knowledge and know-how to nurture to early development.
This Issue and Why It Matters
This article deals with the misconceptions and myths regarding immigrant families in the United States. People believed that immigrants fall into one category of homogeneous of higher risk of living in poverty, suffer from poor quality health care, and lack access to quality early care and education. However many immigrants are borne in the United States and legal citizens; therefore they have strengths of immigrant families, such as health benefits related to higher rates of breast-feeding and immunization, better nutritional status in newcomer families, the greater likelihood of children living in two-parent families, and the positive effect learning multiple languages may have on cognitive and neural development. In addition, we as United State citizens have to speak up and help end the misconceptions and stereotypes remarks.
Reference
http://main.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/ZTT29-2_nov_08.pdf?docID=7241
Hi Diane,
ReplyDeleteInteresting to learn that immigrants are better off than I originally thought. I guess I fell into the belief that most immigrants were of low-income, lack health care, and have less access to early childhood education for their young children. I have much to learn! Thank you for sharing your information. I, too, picked the Zero to Three website to review!