Developmental dilemmas of young children of immigrant parents

Migrant parents who are unable to complete the separation process from their country of origin may do so through their relationships with their young children. Two patterns of distorted early childhood development were identified: failure to integrate cognition with feeling, and serving as a cultural bridge at the expense of reality testing and individuation.Ms. Koplow is Associate Director of the Therapeutic Nursery of the Karen Horney Clinic and teaches at Bank Street College.is Director of the Child and Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program at Metropolitan Hospital Center.