Communication Pattern Of Mixed Marriage (A Qualitative Study on the Mixed Marriage Parents Educating Their Children)

The process of communication that takes place in families with different citizenship is not just about the process of delivering opinions among family members, but also covering how this communication pattern occurs, in this case related to parenting. Family members who are not the same way of viewing and nurturing culture, indirect parenting patterns will also different from families with a single cultural background. Therefore it is necessary once the existence of intensive communication so that will be found appropriate care for children. This research uses qualitative descriptive method that uses informants to obtain the required data source in accordance with the object under study. The informant in this study were families whose parents are couples of mixed marriages, which already has a teenage children. Researcher determined the respondent family was a mixture of Indonesia-Malaysia, Indonesia-America, Indonesia-Japan and Indonesia-Korea. After obtaining informants, researchers used interviews and observations as data collection techniques. Data analysis used by the researcher in this research was interactive model, by interaction between data collection, data reduction, data presentation and data verification. Results showed that the patterns of communication that occurs in families of mixed marriages, especially in conducting parenting was never separated from the culture of different parents. The pattern of communication between husband and wife in mixed marriages tend to be permissive, which gave freedom of either the child or partner to develop the ability and willingness without any restriction. But children spent more time with mothers, then the pattern of mother care was more dominant than the father, with the consideration and agreement of fathers who came from other countries