Multilingualism and Family Welfare

Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to identify some common issues that may jeopardize the welfare of multilingual families and to suggest strategies that will help overcome the hurdles. It highlights four family-cohesion indicators that may threaten multilingual family well-being: parental differences in childrearing beliefs and practices; family communication quality; time allocation for heritage-language learning and leisure; and parental expectations concerning their children's heritage-language proficiency. Communication is the key to overcoming the obstacles that affect the well-being of multilingual families. Multilingual family communication begins with the planning of childrearing. Specifically, parents need to consider making an active multilingual childrearing plan, negotiating their differences in childrearing practice, family communication styles, and home-language socialization strategies.

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