Berthoud, marriage: lesson 31

Question 1

What did Berthoud believe?

Answer 1

• British culture is becoming individualistic and effecting family life

Question 2

Who did Berthoud study?

Answer 2

• white British
• Asian British
• black Caribbean

Question 3

What did he find on White British households?

Answer 3

• lower fertility rate, lower marriage, smaller families than British Asians
• higher cohabitation and divorce than Asians
• arranged marriage uncommon

Question 4

What did he find on British Asian households?

Answer 4

• traditional family, marriage and divorce views
• marry younger and fertility rates higher
• more 3 gen households
• younger Asians more accepting of divorce

Question 5

What did he find on Black Caribbean households?

Answer 5

• lower marriage rates than both others
• fertility rates similar to white British
• greater serial monogamy
• higher rates of lone parenthood ( can be misleading as some ‘live apart together’)