Researching the Fatherhood Experiences for the Vietnamese Newly Immigrant Families from the Birth of Children to Elementary School Stage

• Main Authors: Pei-chun Wei, 魏佩君
• Other Authors: Fang-ju Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/qsw4g8

碩士 === 南華大學 === 幼兒教育學系 === 101 === 　　The purpose of this research was to listen to the fatherhood experiences of the Vietnamese newly immigrant families from the birth of their children to elementary school stage.The selected subjects of this research were based on the Taiwanese males who got married with the Vietnamese newly immigrant females and their first child should be elementary school student. Semi-structured interviews with six respondents were conducted to develop six texts.Through applying the research method of hermeneutic phenomenology and analyzing the texts with thematic analysis, this study induced that the fatherhood experience of parenting a child from birth to elementary school in the Vietnamese newly immigrant familiy could be divided into two stages: “Fatherhood Experience of Parenting a Preschool-age Child” and “Fatherhood Experience of Parenting an Elementary School-age Child”. These two stages were divided by the point in time when a child entered elementary school. “Fatherhood Experience of Parenting a Preschool-age Child” could be interpreted by the following three common themes: (1) Readjust to new life and modify emotions brought by the new role of first-time father; (2) Experience conflicts over child discipline with foreign spouse due to cultural differences as the child grows up; (3) Take comfort in seeing the child enter kindergarten and become more and more well-behaved. “Fatherhood Experience of Parenting an Elementary School-age Child” could be interpreted by the following four common themes: (1) Start to focus on child’s academic performance after the child attends elementary school; (2) Change the style of parental discipline from rebuke, physical punishment to reasoning as the child makes progress at elementary school; (3) Construct a complementary model with spouse in child discipline: “Father gives stick and mother gives carrot”; (4) Grant the child freedom of choosing what to learn and develop in the future. 　 　　According to the results of interpretive analysis, the researcher constructed a model of fatherhood experience transition. Based up this model, the researcher developed two theoretical propositions. The first proposition was that under the influence of “financial factors” and “patriarchal ideology”, male marrying Vietnamese newly immigrant female plays the traditional Chinese father role to his pre-school age child. The second proposition was that under the influence of “parenting experience passed down from father in family of origin” and “cultural influence from foreign spouse”, male marrying Vietnamese newly immigrant female is forced to develop the role of modern ideal father to his elementary school-age child. 　 　　Based on these common themes and results, some concrete recommendations were proposed for the fathers of the Vietnam’s newly immigrant families, the schools, the educators and the future researches.