Shannon Rogers

My grandmother loved us with her whole heart. But, like so many Americans, she had a lot of trauma stored in her body, and she passed on some of that trauma—as well as her love and resilience—to her children and grandchildren.

In Hong Kong, the vast majority of Filipino migrants are domestic workers, often raising other people’s children. CNN spoke with several of these women, and adults who grew up in the Philippines without their mothers, about the emotional toll of being separated for years.

This demonstrates that children being held in immigration detention experience high levels of mental health distress and that the psychological impacts of being children of immigrants or children of immigrant status can scar an adolescent and traumatize their lives, possibly creating more problems for them later on in their lives.

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"There's a kind of melancholy in looking out at these unlived lives," Zauner says. "But it's not a violent longing, it's just kind of a melancholic acceptance."

As children grow up, they may harbor guilt since they feel conflicted between wanting to live out their authentic truth yet fearing they could lose their mother’s love if it’s perceived as a rejection of her teachings. They may unconsciously respond by developing adaptive survival mechanisms to secure their mother’s love

Mitski sings, "Your mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me / but I do, I think I do.