Department of Youth Development, Beit Berl College, Beit Berl, Israel.
Department of Criminology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Fam Process. 2020 Dec;59(4):1856-1873. doi: 10.1111/famp.12526. Epub 2020 Feb 13.
Scarce qualitative literature has focused on understanding the perspective of parents of adolescents involved in crime, and no prior literature has examined how the status of being a parent of an adolescent who is involved in delinquency intersects with being an immigrant parent. The current phenomenological study examined, through the eyes of immigrant parents, how they comprehend their children's involvement in delinquent behavior. This study examined in-depth semistructured interviews conducted with fourteen immigrant parents (10 mothers and 4 fathers) from the former Soviet Union in Israel of children treated in rehabilitation facilities for delinquent youth. Data analysis revealed a gradual decline in children's behavior ascribed to the developmental stage of adolescence, the pressures of immigration, and cultural conflict. These three factors are interwoven together to create a fabric within which they see their children turning to crime. Parents' gradual loss of control is balanced by attempts to idealize the parent-child relationship and to minimize the severity of the offenses committed. They describe various differing and even contradictory experiences of themselves as parents and their struggles to piece together incohesive, alternating experiences of themselves as parents. Despite the critical role they can play in their children's rehabilitation, as well as the distress that they themselves experience, parents of children involved in delinquent behavior have often been ignored in research. Acknowledging parents' perspectives and experiences can allow development of appropriate therapeutic strategies to support them and maximize their abilities to support their children.
鲜有定性文献关注理解犯罪青少年父母的观点，也没有先前文献探讨青少年犯罪父母的身份如何与移民父母的身份相交织。本现象学研究通过移民父母的视角，考察了他们如何理解孩子的犯罪行为。本研究深入探讨了来自前苏联的 14 名移民父母（10 名母亲和 4 名父亲）的情况，这些父母的孩子在青少年犯罪康复设施接受治疗。数据分析揭示了儿童行为逐渐恶化的原因，包括青春期的发展阶段、移民的压力和文化冲突。这三个因素交织在一起，构成了他们认为孩子犯罪的原因。父母对孩子的控制逐渐减弱，同时试图理想化亲子关系并最小化犯罪的严重程度。他们描述了自己作为父母的各种不同甚至相互矛盾的经历，以及将这些经历拼凑在一起的努力。尽管他们在孩子的康复过程中可以发挥重要作用，并且自己也经历了痛苦，但参与犯罪行为的青少年的父母在研究中经常被忽视。承认父母的观点和经历可以制定适当的治疗策略来支持他们，并最大限度地发挥他们支持孩子的能力。
