Intercultural Parenting and Relationships, 1st ed. 2019 Challenges and Rewards

This book provides understandings of how intercultural, -racial, -ethnic, -national, and -faith couples and parents in Australia bring up their children and manage their relationships. Which challenges and benefits do they encounter, and which strategies do they use to negotiate their differences and belongingness? In portraying the lived experiences of intercultural couples and parents, Bhugun considers contextual and external factors such as individual and personality traits, the environment, gender and power, religion, socio-economic status, extended family, friends, and diasporic communities. Moving the reader from beyond negative stereotypes to a more nuanced representation of both the challenges and benefits of the phenomenon, Intercultural Parenting and Relationships provides intimate testimonies and offers innovations in theory and practice.

Dharam Bhugun is a Psycho-Social Therapist at Realistic Counselling, Queensland, Australia and Guest Lecturer, Southern Cross University, Gold Coast, Australia. 

Provides a balanced overview of the challenges as well as the strengths and resiliencies of intercultural parents

Explores the meaning-making process of everyday interactions of intercultural parents

Focuses on the “what is” rather than “what should be” of parents’ own experiences of cultural differences