Parents In Italy Research Articles

Guilty feelings and the guilt trip: Emotions and motivation in migration and transnational caregiving

This paper explores experience of 'guilt' as a motivating emotion in the migrant process. Data are drawn from two major research projects with a focus on Italian transnational families comprising adult migrant children living in Australia and their ageing parents in Italy. Findings confirm Baumeister et al.'s (1994) three broad functions of guilt as relationship-enhancing; a tool for exerting influence over others; and a mechanism for alleviating inequities in relationships. The analysis extends this social relational understanding of guilt by locating it within the broader context of cultural processes to argue that a moral obligation to return is implicit in the migration process.

Vaccination against Human Papilloma Virus infection in male adolescents: Knowledge, attitudes, and acceptability among parents in Italy

Objectives: To elicit information about parents’ knowledge, attitudes, and acceptability toward HPV infection and vaccination of male adolescents in Italy; to identify subgroups of this population who exhibit poor knowledge about prevention of HPV infection and reveal negative attitudes toward HPV vaccination in relation to their male sons.Study design: Data were collected via self-administered anonymous questionnaire from 1021 parents of males aged 10 to 14 y who were recruited from a random sample of public secondary schools in the South of Italy.Results: Three-quarters (72.6%) reported that the vaccine is a preventive measure for HPV infection and 55.8% that condom use reduces the risk of HPV infection. A high education level, abundant sources of information about HPV infection received from physicians, and knowledge about HPV infection were factors significantly associated with high level of knowledge about preventive measures for HPV infection. 71% revealed their intentions to vaccinate their sons, and this intention was significantly associated with perceived benefits both for HPV vaccination for girls and for childhood recommended vaccinations as well as a need for additional information about HPV vaccination. 53.7% of the eligible parents reported that their daughters had been vaccinated against HPV.Conclusion: Results of the study suggest that the risk of acquiring HPV infection and HPV-related diseases is sorely underestimated. Knowledge on the benefits of adolescents’ HPV vaccination in cancer prevention in both sexes should be improved to maximize uptake of HPV vaccination.

My Parents Never Spent Time With Me! Migrants’ Parents in Italy and Hegemonic Ideals of Competent Parenting

Mothers who migrated from Morocco and Ecuador to northeast Italy are the subject for this article, which explores the way in which they observe Italian parenting and tend to negatively evaluate the care they received at home. They consider their settlement in Italy as an opportunity to acquire a “modern” style of parenting. They also access websites and books to seek advice on how to parent, mixing home-country and settlement-country sources of information. They do not perceive any contradiction between these different sources of information, which are considered “science,” and therefore as culture free. The article shows how parenting advice is more than just scientific or “cultural”: It is imbued with hegemonic political discourses. The appropriation of the hegemonic parenting discourses is, indeed, far from deterministic, being riddled with resistances and ambiguities. Through the dynamic entanglements of normative constraints and new resources offered by multiple parenting models, mothers contribute to the renegotiation of the terms of local, transnational, and global citizenship.

Transnational family-work balance: Experiences of Australian migrants caring for ageing parents and young children across distance and borders

How are work and family balanced across national borders and distances? Are there unique features to these transnational balancing acts, or are they simply the same stories being reproduced on a global scale? We use qualitative interview data from migrants who live with their dependent children in Australia, and who simultaneously care for their ageing parents in Italy and Ireland, to explore points of similarity and difference in the balance of family and work at the local and transnational levels. We argue that, while the gendered dimensions are largely reproduced, there are some important points of dissimilarity in both the strategies adopted and the meanings attached to the negotiation of family-work balance in transnational contexts. These stories provide interesting new insights into the broader literature on the balance of family and work, highlighting the important role of culturally-specific models of family and care.

Saving and Cohabitation: The Economic Consequences of Living with One's Parents in Italy and the Netherlands

The paper deals with the e.ects of cohabitation of grown children with their parents on household saving, using data from Italy and the Netherlands. It presents a two-period gametheoretical model where the child has to decide whether to move out of the parental home. This decision is affected by transaction costs, the child's preference for independence, and by the consumption loss induced by the move (consumption is a public good while the child lives in the parental home). We show that the child's income share affects the household saving decision, in contrast with predictions of the standard unitary model of household decision making. Empirical results from both countries are supportive of the key model predictions. We find strong positive effects of the child income share on the saving rate in Italy, where we calculate saving as the difference between disposable income and consumption but cannot distinguish children who will leave from those who will stay. We also find some significant effects of the child income share on household saving rate in the Netherlands, where saving is computed as the change over time in financial wealth. In the Dutch data we distinguish between children who stay and children who leave. The effect of the child's income share is significantly negative for those who stay, positive for those who leave.

Saving and Cohabitation: The Economic Consequences of Living with One's Parents in Italy and the Netherlands [with Comments

Previous articleNext article FreeSaving and Cohabitation: The Economic Consequences of Living with One's Parents in Italy and the Netherlands [with Comments]Rob Alessie, Agar Brugiavini, Guglielmo Weber, Mihir A. Desai, and Michael McMahonRob AlessieUtrecht University, Netspar and Tinbergen Institute Search for more articles by this author , Agar BrugiaviniUniversità Ca’ Foscari di Venezia and IFS Search for more articles by this author , Guglielmo WeberUniversità di Padova, IFS and CEPR Search for more articles by this author , Mihir A. DesaiHarvard University and NBER Search for more articles by this author , and Michael McMahonLondon School of Economics, Centre for Economic Performance, and Bank of England Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 2004, Number 12004 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/653961 Views: 102Total views on this site © 2006 by the National Bureau of Economic ResearchPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.