- The self-esteem boosting, follow your dreams and be happy all the time parenting method that many white parents in America practice.
- The practice known as tiger parenting as seen in Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and/or Anchee Min’s The Cooked Seed—both memoirs.
Lylah M. Alphonse, Senior Editor of Yahoo! Shine reported on May 9 about “a recently released decade-long study of 444 Chinese-American families shows that the effect tiger parents have on their kids is almost exactly the opposite,” and that a controlling Chinese-style parent does not drive his or her child to success.
The conclusion was that “Tiger parenting doesn’t produce superior outcomes in kids.”
I disagree, and here’s why:
Studying 444 Chinese-American families does not provide enough information.
Instead, the study should expand in its scope and include all Asian Americans in addition to Pacific Islanders, because these cultures encourage stricter parenting methods and place a higher value on education compared to the wishy-washy style of the average White American parent who talks to his/her child less than five minutes a day and allows the child to divide his/her daily time watching about 10 hours of TV, listing to music, hanging out with friends, playing video games, spending time on sites such as Facebook, sending text messages, etc.
The results:
- Suicide Rates by Race/Ethnicity, 1990-2010 (all ages):
In twenty years, the suicide rates of Asian/Pacific Islanders never cracked 7% and even improved from 6.63% in 1990 to 6.24% by 2010.
For American Whites, the suicide rate was 13.3% in 1990 and climbed to 14.13% by 2010—more than twice the suicide rate of Asian/Pacific Islanders.
Source: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
- Unemployment rate by race for March 2013 (all ages):
The White American unemployment was 6.9%.
The Asian-American was 5% (the lowest employment rate among all racial groups)
Source: United States Department of Labor
- Divorce rate by race:
Whites had the highest divorce rate in America at 27%. African American’s were a distant second at 22% and Hispanics at 20%.
The Asian-American divorce rate was 8%—less than a third of the White divorce rate.
Source: Assisted Divorce.com
- Drug use by race (all ages):
“Of the major racial/ethnic groups, the rate of drug use is highest among the American Indian/Native American population (10.6%) and those reporting mixed race (11.2%), followed by African Americans (7.7%), Hispanics (6.8%), and whites at (6.6%).
The lowest rates were found among the Asian population at 3.2%—less than half that of whites.
Source: pbs.org
- Money Income of Households—Percent Distribution by Income Level, Race, in Constant (2009) Dollars: 1990 to 2009:
1990 White = $49,686 (Medium income in dollars)
2009 white = $51,861
1990 Asian = $61,170
2009 Asian = $65,469
Source: US Census, Table 690
- STD Health Equity – Rates by Race or Ethnicity:
In 2011, Whites had 1.7 times the reported gonorrhea rates of Asian/Pacific Islanders
In 2011, Whites had 1.4 times the reported chlamydia rates of Asians/Pacific Islanders
In 2011, whites had 1.4 times the reported syphilis rates of Asian/Pacific Islanders
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Life Expectancy by Race:
The average life expectancy of an Asian-America in the United States is 84.56 years, but for White Americans it is only 78.74 years.
Source: World Life Expectancy.com
- Birth Rates (Live Births) per 1,000 Females Aged 15–19 Years, by Race … 2000–2011:
White = 22 per 1,000
Asian/Pacific Islander = 10 per 1,000—less than half that of white females aged 15-19.
Source: cdc.gov
- Education:
50 percent of Asian Americans in comparison to 31 percent of the total U.S. population had earned at least a bachelor’s degree, and about 48 percent of Asian Americans were employed in management, professional and related occupations, compared with 40 percent of the white population
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
In Conclusion: “Asian Americans are the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group in the United States. They are more satisfied than the general public with their lives, finances and the direction of the country, and they place more value than other Americans on marriage, parenthood, hard work and career success, according to a comprehensive nationwide survey by the Pew Research Center.”
In addition, the Pew Research Center says, “Their living arrangements align with these values. They are more likely than all American adults to be married (59% vs. 51%); their newborns are less likely than all U.S. newborns to have an unmarried mother (16% vs. 41%); and their children are more likely than all U.S. children to be raised in a household with two married parents (80% vs. 63%).”
The average White parent is obsessed with his/her child’s self-esteem and happiness, while the average Asian-American parent practices a parenting philosophy known as tiger parenting that most whites detest.
Considering the information in this post, what parenting method has the best long-term results for a longer, healthier better quality of life? Please leave a comment with your answer.
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Lloyd Lofthouse, a former U.S. Marine and Vietnam Veteran, is the award winning author of My Splendid Concubine [3rd edition].
His latest novel is Running with the Enemy. Blamed for a crime he did not commit while serving in Vietnam, his country considers him a traitor. Ethan Card is a loyal U.S. Marine desperate to prove his innocence or he will never go home again.
And the woman he loves and wants to save was trained to hate and kill Americans.
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