Research on African American families throughout the twentieth century has focused largely
on the prevalence of single-mother families. Much debate has focused on understanding the …

346| THE FUTURE OF MARRIAGE a universality in their family experiences that simply did
not exist. Instead, social-structural factors produced a diversity of family forms among slaves …

The African American single-parent family has tended to be a scapegoat for a variety of
social problems, ranging from poverty to drug abuse. As a result, there exists much …

The authors examine the experiences and ideals of African American working-class mothers
through 20 intensive interviews. They focus on the women's negotiations with racialized …

The research reveals that African Americans are the least likely to marry, when they marry,
they do so later and spend less time married than White Americans, and they are the least …

The heated debate on African American families reaches a fevered pitch on the issue of
single parenthood and poor African American women. However, families of whatever …

A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among
the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly incendiary-solution …

Over the past decade, social scientists have exhibited a growing interest in the percentage
of single-parent African American families and the overall decline in marriage rates among …

The discourse surrounding African American families during the past 30 years has primarily
consisted of some form of reaction to the Moynihan Report (1965), which presented …

This work provides a broad analysis of sociological and historical literature on African
American families. Beginning with an analysis of Black families under slavery, we trace the …