ethnicity in family

Question 1

what did Berthoud say 2000?

Answer 1

• family life is changing across ethnic groups
• South Asian families are more likely to retain traditional views on marriage and gender roles - but intergenerational difference in attitudes
• Black-Caribbean - greater individualism and less likely to marry and have conventional families - cohabitation and serial monogamy higher than South Asians

Question 2

what did Bhatti say 1999?

Answer 2

• evidence of changing attitudes in younger generations of family - particularly towards marriage and mixed relationships
• traditional gender roles in older generations with lower levels of female employment for those with adult children
• motherhood was seen as being more important than employment - fathers would take on traditional role within the family of being provider

Question 3

what did Qureshi et al (2015) say?

Answer 3

• higher rates of traditional families than other ethnic groups
• has been an increasing acceptance of divorce within British Asian families and increase in lone parenting across 3 main British Asian groups
• evidence of changing attitudes to arranged marriage - greater conflict in younger generations of family between partners

Question 4

what did Berthoud say 2001?

Answer 4

• marriage is a lifestyle option rather than a social institution to some Black-Caribbean households
• argues young Caribbean women have an attitude of individualism so more likely to cohabit/ live apart during marriage, female may be head of household

Question 5

what does Reynolds say 2002?

Answer 5

• greater fluidity in family forms in Black-Caribbean families
• female-headed households are often part of visiting relationships - in a similar way to LATs - where a man actively parents children but does not live with family
• Reynolds suggests there are variations in attitudes based upon different Caribbean islands - traditional ideas in Barbados and Antigua