<p>Refugee parents bravely support their families as they seek safety for their children. However, most of the literature that has explored the experiences of this population has narrowly focused on the prevalence of psychopathology. We challenge these deficit-based models by exploring whether refugee parents employ emotion-related beliefs that serve functional purposes towards the care of children given specific contextual demands, measured based on socioeconomic (SES) change and conditions of different host countries. Refugee parents (<i>N</i> = 102; Female = 65%) residing in 4 countries responded to questionnaires assessing the need to know about emotions in children, beliefs about children’s ability to independently regulate emotions, and the value of anger in children. Parents whose children struggled with access to basic necessities—measured through worsened SES—believed that they needed to know about all of their children’s emotion less and that their children were able to independently regulate their emotions more, and they valued the expression of anger more. Parents in countries that posed the highest threats to safety reported the highest need to know about children’s emotions and differed from other countries (F (3, 79) = 6.553, <i>p</i> &lt;0.001). Bereaved parents valued their children’s expression of anger the most and were different from other countries (F (3, 60) = 8.233, <i>p</i> &lt;0.001). We interpret these findings using a strength-based lens towards the study of refugee families and argue that the beliefs parents espouse may be an indication of their intentional efforts as they support their children’s functioning in different displacement contexts.</p>