Youth studies to predict adults must be the rage right now (see below):
[A]ccording to a new study, parents of goths will probably end up boasting about their son/daughter the doctor, lawyer or bank manager.
That is the surprising finding of Sussex University's Dunja Brill, whose doctorate in media and cultural studies looked at people with funny hair and eyeliner in London, Brighton and Cologne, and who is herself a former goth.
Link.
Note: The article doesn't distinguish between Ostrogoths and Visigoths, and it doesn't address the role latent Arianism plays in all this.