Sociology- Ethnic difference in family patterns
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- Created on: 15-03-19 14:11
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- Black families
- Ethnic differences in family patterns
- Asian families
- Bangladeshi,Pakistani and Indian households tend to be larger
- Such households sometimes contain three generations but most are nuclear
- Large households due to fact that there are a higher proportion of Asians in childbearing age groups
- Also reflect the value placed on extended family
- Ballard 1982 found that extended family ties provided an important source of support among Asian migrants between 50s and 60s
- Asian families
- Higher proportion of lone parent households
- 2012= Half of families with dependent children headed by a black person were lone parent families
- High rate of these lone families can be seen as evidence of family disorganization that can be traced back to slavery
- Slavery- when couples sold separately children stayed with mother
- Mirza 1997 argues that higher rates of lone parent families reflects the high value that black women place on independence
- Reynolds 2010 argues that the statistics are misleading and many lone parents are stable and supportive
- Ethnic differences in family patterns
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