changing family patterns- ethnic differences in family patterns

Question 1

black families pattern

Answer 1

-tend to be lone-parent families
-24% of black households are lone parent compared to only 10% of white households, 8% of Asian households

Question 2

Mann (2009) found that?

Answer 2

45 percent of all Black Caribbean families in the UK were lone-parent families, usually lone-mother families.

Question 3

traditional British families tend to be

Answer 3

nuclear family

Question 4

Mirza (1997) why do black families tend to be long parent?

Answer 4

The higher rate of lone-parent families in The Black Community is not due to disorganisation, and instead is due to the high value Black women place on their independence.

Question 5

Asian families patterns - cohabitation

Answer 5

• three times less likely to be cohabiting and higher rates of marriage

Question 6

south asian families tend to be

Answer 6

extended

Question 7

Ballard (1982) extended family asian

Answer 7

Larger Asian households may reflect the value that is placed on large households.
Extended family ties provide an important source of support to Asian families that were migrating to The UK in the 1950s and 1960s.

Question 8

divorce in asian families

Answer 8

-divorce still stigmatised in asian culture so more likely to stay in an empty shell marriage