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American View in Co-sleeping

Co- sleeping in Different Culture

Defintion of co-sleeping:

Co-sleeping is not specific enough to define based on many different scientific research

Egyptians in co-sleeping:

Findings

  • 77% of them co-sleep in a study, lot of them co-sleep until they are married
  • Those who co-sleep report a shorter length of sleeping for both the adults and the children comparing to non- cosleepers.
  • On average, they sleep 2 hours less.

Egyptians in co-sleeping

Americans view in co-sleeping

Main Ideas

Definition of co-sleeping:

both bed-sharing and room-sharing

  • Based heavily on science and empirical research
  • During 1990s, 50% of U.s Mothers co-sleep (bed sharing)with their infants comparing to only 25% before
  • Many studies throughout the world have attempted to study how culture change parenting.
  • How culture,ethnicity affect parenting practice, particularly co-sleeping?
  • We will demonstrate how different culture influence co-sleeping decision based on empirical data

Reference

Americans view in co-sleeping

Findings:

Anders, T. F., & Taylor, T. R. (1994). Babies and their

sleep environment. Children's Environments, 123-134.

McKenna, J. J., & McDade, T. (2005). Why babies should

never sleep alone: a review of the co-sleeping controversy

in relation to SIDS, bed-sharing and breast feeding.

Paediatric respiratory reviews, 6(2), 134-152.

Schachter, F. F., Fuchs, M. L., Bijur, P. E., & Stone, R.K. (1989)

.Cosleeping and sleep problems in Hispanic-

American urban young children.Pediatrics, 84(3), 522-530.

Worthman, C. M., & Brown, R. A. (2013). Sleep budgets in

a globalizing world: Bio-cultural interactions influence

sleep sufficiency among Egyptian families. Social Science

& Medicine, 79, 31-39.

Why do we have such differences?

  • Many western parents are increasingly adopting night-time infant care giving patterns that include some co-sleeping behavior, especially amongst mothers who breast feed
  • Most USA and other western infants die from SIDS or from fatal accidents during solitary sleep without adult's supervision

Japanese's co-sleeping

Definition:

Conclusion:

  • Egyptians: In egyptian culture, co-sleeping is not only seen as a bond-building, protective, practice, it also put Egyptian children under surveillance during adolescence to prevent the feasibility of sexual behavior as it is seen as unholy for them to have sexual behaviors before marriage
  • Therefore, even though the sleep quality might be affected by co-sleeping,a lot of Egyptian insist to do some form of co-sleeping with their children until they are married due to their culture

Sleep in the same room with parents or adult relatives

For Americans, culture has little or no influence on co-sleeping decision, an increasing rate of co-sleeping is observed due to the discovery of positive outcomes by empirical research. The rate is not stable comparing to Egyptian and Japanese as decisions is made based on whatever science point at.

Americans view in co-sleeping Findings:

Japanese in co-sleeping

Americans:

  • For at least 100 years western social and moral values and the new sleep "science" served as the basis for defining how and where infants should sleep
  • The western thought is that infants sleeping alone is "morally good" because it's safer for the infants and it fosters "psychologically healthy independent" children

the nation has not existed for nearly as long as other culture like Japan or Egypt, so there isn't a strong cultural view in co-sleeping decision but rather based on what science favors

Conclusion :

Americans view in co-sleeping

Findings:

For Egyptians, a high prevalence of co-sleeping is seen as their culture favors co-sleeping and the trend is unlikely to change because even though negative effects are observed by some research. The culture plays a big role on co-sleeping decision

Japanese: It is a social norm that parents should co-sleep with their new born babies as it is a sign of family unity. It is a tradition that passed on to every generation.

  • Rarely sleep alone, 90% of Japanese family share parental bedroom with their infants (3-4months old) in a study, the rate drop slightly into almost 80% for children at 1-5 years old
  • Married couples will sleep separately to let all of their children can co-sleeping with their adult relatives

For Japanese, a high co-sleeping rate is also observed. unlike Egyptian, it is simply a part of Japanese culture without obvious reasons. It is possible that because Japanese culture emphasize respecting the elderly, therefore when the habit of co-sleeping is passed on the younger generation by elderly, no questions were asked despite co-sleeping gives rise to some sleep problems in Japanese.

  • The dangerous part of co-sleeping that can contribute to SIDS is the position of the infant in relation to the parent
  • Thousands of western babies died from SIDS, which probably contributed to the western thought that co-sleeping is dangerous

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