Question

How racism affact family functioning? Please be specific.

Answer 1

Racism is an institutional pattern of power and social control that attempt to oppress people based on their ethnic or racial group membership. There are three type of racism that are :

• Individual
• Institutional
• Cultural

Individual racism is discriminatory practices enacted on a person due to their racial/ethnic group and seeks to deny them access to opportunities.

Institutional racism is when societal, governmental, institutional practices or policies seeks to oppress or deny opportunities to racial and ethnic minorities.

Cultural racism is when the dominant group asserts that their culture is superior or impose their culture on to non dominant group

Racism affect family functioning according to below following points that are :

• Experience of racism lead to poor mother's mental health over time.
• Racism experienced by family impacts negatively on children's development.
• Mother and family experiences of racism have a direct effect on children's outcomes.
• Racism affects on children's socioemotional development both directly and indirectly.
• Parental support of and sensitivity to their children decrease when they are stressed by their own racial discrimination experiences.
• Parents exposure to racial discrimination also decrease their likelihood of providing a warm and caring environment for their children and increases irritability, explosive and uninvolved parenting and harsh discipline.
• Psychological effects of racial discrimination is on general self efficacy ,which is a child cognitive orientation and belief in his or her ability to affect future outcomes.