Ethnicity : Family and Homelife

• Family and Homelife

  Indian and Chinese families have higher levels of Parental control and expectation.
• Family and Homelife

  Strand's (2007) analysis of data from the 2004 Longitudinal Study of Young People found that Indian students are the ethnic group most likely to complete homework five evenings a week. This group stated that parents are most likely to say they always know where their child is when they are out.
• Family and Homelife

  Crozier (2004) found that Pakistani and Bangladeshi parents 'kept their distance' from their children's schools because they trusted the professionals to do their jobs. Where English was not the first language, parents lacked confidence in use of English and there were no translators available for parents' evening or meetings.
• Family and Homelife

  Burgess and Wilson (2008) found that among Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Black Caribbean and Black African families, over 90 per cent of parents want their child to stay on at school at age 16. This compares with 77 per cent of white families.
• Family and Homelife

  Archer and Francis (2007) found that Asian Chinese children were the highest achieving students in London schools. The reason suggested was that the parents invest a lot of time and money into their children. Even poor parents spent a lot time and saved as much money as possible to support their children as they had high aspirations for them to improve their social class.
• Family and Homelife

  Vincent (2013) found that black middle-class parents invested heavily in their child's education and were keen to attend parent's evening events and insisted on high standards from their child. She found that often teachers expected the parents to know less about the education process and teachers assumed that the parents were less interested in their child's education.
• Family and Homelife

  Moon & Ivins (2004) carried out a telephone survey of 1500 parents from different ethnicities and found that 82% of parents from black and minority groups attended parent's evening even though there may have been language barriers in some cases. They found that parents from minority ethnic groups were more involved in their child's education than White British parents.