Families with different religious beliefs or cultures tend to favour different family structures. Beishon, Modood and Virdee found that the majority of the Pakistanis and Bangladeshis they interviewed preferred to live with extended family, whereas Indian and African Asians believed that married children should set up home on their own but near enough to support parents when necessary. All unmarried children of South Asian parents were expected to live with them. Caribbeans and whites were tolerant of cohabitation, illegitimacy and divorce, while South Asians found them shameful.
