My girlfriend is studying the effect having a cross-cultural marriage (or interracial, whatever you want to call it) has on parenting styles, and she needs people with children to respond to a survey. It only takes a couple minutes and is less than 30 questions (Agree, Disagree, etc).
She and I would be very indebted to anyone who would fill out the survey. 
http://surveys.admsrv.ohio.edu/surveys/html/305B94E850568E2E4B7D350EF8719EE0.html
I just filled it out. Is your girlfriend focusing on bi-cultural families in Taiwan, or are other countries also involved? Would it be possible for your girlfriend to post the results here on Forumosa? If not, could she e-mail me a copy? I’d be interested to see the results. My e-mail address is maoman at forumosa.com
Also, some of the questions didn’t really apply to my situation as our child is only 15 months old. For those questions I mostly chose the answer “neutral”.
Well, she’s Taiwanese, so she’s focusing on couples consisting of East/West construction. However, she’s still researching other biracial combinations. I’ll make sure she posts the results here when it’s done.
This is just a pilot, remember. Really just to get an idea of how to forumlate the research when she begins that phase of her Ph.D.
The results should be in within a week.
I filled it out too.
I filled out the survey–there is no consideration about these parenting units that have broken up–divorced or seperated and how that might effect things.
And this is exactly why it’s being piloted. 
Thanks, housecat. I hadn’t even thought of that (not sure if she has, either). This will definitely be added into the final survey (which will be part of her research in the latter stage of her Ph.D).
Thanks for filling it out!
[quote=“CuriosityAndTheCat”]Well, she’s Taiwanese, so she’s focusing on couples consisting of East/West construction. However, she’s still researching other biracial combinations. I’ll make sure she posts the results here when it’s done.
This is just a pilot, remember. Really just to get an idea of how to forumlate the research when she begins that phase of her Ph.D.
The results should be in within a week. [/quote]
If it’s East/West couples she’s looking for, then perhaps she should be more explicit in her request. If it’s simply cross-cultural couples – which, btw, may or may not be interracial – then perhaps some general guidelines should be stated about how different these cultures have to be. For example, a 5th generation Japanese American marrying a born-raised-living-in Japan Japanese would not be interracial, but most likely would be inter-cultural.
Ethnicity markers such as “Asian” also seem a bit broad. I’d say that a Korean differs quite a bit from an Indian who again differs significantly from an Afghan.
EDIT: Is this thread better placed within the Parenting forum?
I filled out the form, as well.
Perhaps the results can be posted here in this thread. Or maybe a link to the results can be posted.
Same here.
The results of the survey will be posted in the coming weeks. The girl is trying to finish up her Master’s and is pretty busy. Hold tight!
I am, not sure if I am an intercultural family. I am a “white” Australian living in Taiwan, but I am divorced. My boy is now 7 years old and his mom left when he was only 14 months old. I have sole custody of him and his mom is not part of his or my life. Oh, she does show up once or twice a year, after sending me an email saying she is back in Taiwan for a few days. He does know that she is his mommy, but feel he doesn’t know what that really means as he doesn’t behave any different towards her than he does to any of the other female friends I have.
So he is being raised a “western way” I guess though we are living in an Eastern culture. He goes to regular Taiwanese elementary school and has a Taiwanese babysitter though. His Taiwanese family have no interest in him. He went to bilingual Kindergarten from the ages of 2 to 6 and now also attends English class 3 X 2 hrs per week.
I think some of these questions need to be considered and compared when answered from both parents in the family, for example, Question 1, “My marriage has become more joyful after having children” I thought it had, but obviously my Taiwanese wife musn’t have thought so… So that may lead to a very different answer from both parents on Question 2.
Anyways, I am sure the survey will bring forward some interesting information and good luck with the study.
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Thank you
Sorry, I can’t submit my responses