York University: Young Children

Overseas Relatives Dept: The custom of temporarily boarding young children with overseas relatives a strategy that helps newcomers cope with the stress of migration is not limited to the Chinese, but is also common among South Asian, African and Caribbean immigrants, according to The Star. It is difficult to have a functional family life for them. They have to use coping strategies that are familiar to them, based on their own cultural values, said York University child psychologist Yvonne Bohr, lead author of the study and the phenomenon of satellite babies children separated from parents and in care of relatives abroad is more common across immigrant communities than once thought, says a Toronto study . However, according to the York University study, the patterns of parent-child separation including timing and length of separation are distinct among those communities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.