The most troubling problem in immigrant families is that fathers’ voices have often been absent from the children life, or perhaps even seen as irrelevant to environment that children are growing, family conversations nowadays is about the role of the father in children’s lives and how they can help the mothers who are mainly struggling to raise the children physically and mentally. In an effort to address this, SAYPA began to work with the fathers with a relatively small sample first and now ready to work with all fathers in Boston Immigrant families.
SAYPA hosted first is a kind meeting of focusing on the role of fatherhood in the family when it came to job 1, Dad’s role was a given. He was the guy who “brought home the goat.” He provided his family with the much needed economic means to make all other family objectives possible from the basic necessities of food and shelter, to the longer term, more strategic investments in funding children’s college educations and mom and dad’s retirement.
In the immigrant families, a lot of fathers felt they can’t provide for their family because the size of the family (Immigrant families have more children the most American families), when the family turns to government for help the role of fatherhood is compromised which forced a lot of fathers to abandon their role of the family. The immigrant fathers struggle that working fulltime, raising children, and maintaining a household with low-income wage earnings and the cultural role in which men go off to work and women take care of children and home is no longer the most common model of the American family and Immigrant fathers don’t get it yet.
SAYPA dinner focused to open dialogue about this situation.
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