Leaving Haiti to settle in North America brings many different challenges for parents. While parents struggle to make ends meet, they have to constantly worry about the impact of the American culture on the values they learned in Haiti. The constantly changing limits of sex, drugs, and gender are great source of frustrations for parents who lived in a country where conversations about sex were limited; drugs usage were low or non-existent, and gender lines were rigid. The cultural difference is an important factor that affects teenagers and Haitian parents. Haiti is a conservative country. Conversations about sex are so … Continue reading Raising teenagers in North America: why the constant fight with Haitian-parents?