Caribbean Family Structures Worksheet

Regina B.

Amanda V.

Irem A.

Gigi W.

Caribbean Family Structures Worksheet

Directions: Use the information presented to you on the three main family structures of the Caribbean to answer the following questions.

Answer A for Chinese-Caribbean families

B for African-Caribbean families

C for Indian-Caribbean families

1) The process called ‘child-shifting’ occurs when parents immigrate to other countries or start new families.

2) Women are almost always inferior to men in this family structure.

3) Keeps close ties to associates back in their native country, and sometimes seek out other families of their ethnicity to live with in a community.

4) 80-90 percent of families in the Caribbean are of this structure.

5) This structure features 4 main types of family relationships (marital union, common-law union, visiting union, and the single parent family).

6) The role of children is to bring honor to their family and care for their parents in their old age.

7) Exhibits the tradition of family privacy.