Mexican American Intergenerational Relationships Essay

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Current studies suggest that intergenerational relationships (Umberson, 2002) are gradually becoming more important to Mexican - Americans (Swartz, 2009). Mexicans enjoy the intergenerational growth between first-generation immigrants and their second-generation children (Duncan & Trejo, 2011). Next of kin to their parents, the U.S.-born second generation experiences remarkable increases in English skills, educational accomplishment, and income and prefer to speak English rather than Spanish, and by the third generation most Mexican Americans no longer speak Spanish at all. (Duncan & Trejo, 2011). A number of factors such as no health insurance, community support, fluency in English, and, and no translators that can force the acculturation development in Mexican Americans. Acculturation …show more content…

Additionally, the Welfare Reform legislation of 1996 brought stressors for numerous Mexican American elderly who had immigrated to the U.S. at early ages and had never applied for residency (Morawetz, 2000). History of this population in the U.S. is characterized by open conflict, social inequality, prejudice, and discrimination and these factors have greatly and dramatically shaped the sociocultural realities of the aging (Ramos & Wright, 2010). McInnis-Dittrich (2014) states that understanding an Elders spirituality helps to understand the older adult view of the world, subsequent behavior and maintaining a sense of continuity and cohesion in order to face changes that accompany the aging process ( p, ). Many Mexican - American elders who attend church monthly, weekly, and more than weekly tend to exhibit slower rates of cognitive decline than those who do not attend church (Herrera, Lee, Nanyonjo, Laufman, & Torres-Vigil,

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