Ethnicity

• 3.4 Ballard


  south asian migrants bought over tradition with them:

  preference for large households

  traditional gender roles

  obligation towards the family

  sense of family honour

  arranged marriages
• 3.4 Berthoud


  asian families are still more traditional than white families
• 3.4 Platt


  family size remains larger is asian households

  16% white = 4+

  43% pakistani

  49% bangladeshi
• 3.4 Berthoud and Beishon


  lower rates of formal marriage among British African caribena and higher rates of divorce