Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Ethnic differences
in family patterns
- Greater ethnic diversity
due to immigration
- Black families
- Higher proportion
of lone-parent
families
- High rate of female-headed
lone-parent black families
- Matrifocal families
- A matrifocal family structure is one
where mothers head families and
fathers play a less important role in
the home and in bringing up children
- High unemployment
and poverty in black
males
- Unable to
support
family
- Mirza argues that
Black women
favour
independence
- Asian families
- Bangladeshi,
Pakistani and
Indian
households on
average larger
- Sometimes
three-generational
- Beanpole
families
- Extended families
- Most are nuclear
- Family
lives
nearby
- No longer
practical to
have many
household
members