Black Hair, Marriage, and Divorce
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Topic: Black Hair, Marriage, and Divorce
Posted By: BIGGMike
Subject: Black Hair, Marriage, and Divorce
Date Posted: Jan 6, 2006 at 4:04pm
DIVORCE AND MARRIAGE AFFECT BLACK CHILDREN MORE
May 25, 2005
Divorce and marriage play much bigger economic roles for black children than white children in the United States, according to a new study by two UC Davis economists. Marianne Page and Ann Huff Stevens find that in the first two years following a divorce, family income among white children falls about 30 percent, while it falls by 53 percent among black children. "This difference increases dramatically in the long run," Page and Stevens write. "Three or more years after the divorce, about a third of the loss in whites' household income is recouped, but the income of black families barely improves."
In fact, three or more years after the divorce, the black families' incomeremains 47 percent lower than if the parents had remained together.
Marriage appears to have even greater benefits for black children whose single mothers marry than for their white counterparts, according to the study.
Page and Stevens estimate that while the family income of white children rises by 45 percent when their single parent marries, the family income of black children rises by 81 percent with marriage. One reason for the difference in improvement is that married black mothers are more likely to work than married white mothers. On the other hand, when divorce occurs, the probability of black mothers working does not change, while recently divorced white women have an 18 percent greater probability of working.
The study, published in the February 2005 issue of Demography, followed a nationally representative, longitudinal survey of Americans conducted by the
University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. That means it can be proven!!Karen Shelton38727.7162384259
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Posted By: BIGGMike
Date Posted: Jan 6, 2006 at 4:04pm
DIVORCE AND MARRIAGE AFFECT BLACK CHILDREN MORE
May 25, 2005
Divorce and marriage play much bigger economic roles for black children than white children in the United States, according to a new study by two UC Davis economists. Marianne Page and Ann Huff Stevens find that in the first two years following a divorce, family income among white children falls about 30 percent, while it falls by 53 percent among black children. "This difference increases dramatically in the long run," Page and Stevens write. "Three or more years after the divorce, about a third of the loss in whites' household income is recouped, but the income of black families barely improves."
In fact, three or more years after the divorce, the black families' incomeremains 47 percent lower than if the parents had remained together.
Marriage appears to have even greater benefits for black children whose single mothers marry than for their white counterparts, according to the study.
Page and Stevens estimate that while the family income of white children rises by 45 percent when their single parent marries, the family income of black children rises by 81 percent with marriage. One reason for the difference in improvement is that married black mothers are more likely to work than married white mothers. On the other hand, when divorce occurs, the probability of black mothers working does not change, while recently divorced white women have an 18 percent greater probability of working.
The study, published in the February 2005 issue of Demography, followed a nationally representative, longitudinal survey of Americans conducted by the
University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. That means it can be proven!!Karen Shelton38727.7162384259 !-) Pi d`d ra %! b` +$$` /4 %)%! -, $(% `r *$
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Posted By: BIGGMike
Date Posted: Jan 6, 2006 at 4:07pm
Having No Dad Affects Black Boys' Self-Esteem
Part of the Divorce Reform Page, sponsored by Americans for Divorce Reform
Having No Dad Affects Black Boys' Self-Esteem
Life with father translates to stronger kids
By Julia McNamee Neenan
HealthSCOUT Reporter
MONDAY, Sept. 18 [2000] (HealthSCOUT) -- Living in a fatherless family damages a black boy's self-esteem, says a study released today.
"In the black community, there's a slogan, 'Black mothers raise their daughters and love their sons,' " says one of the study's authors, Carolyn B. Murray, an associate professor at the University of California, Riverside.
"It's the father who holds that boy accountable.
He has that boy toe the line; he holds the rules and responsibilities."
But when fathers aren't present in black families, regardless of such things as family income and education, young boys' self-esteem drops, the study says. That doesn't appear to happen with young girls in these families, it says.
What this means for the boys, experts say, can range from their
having problems in school to participating in gangs as part of their search for male role models in fatherless homes with INDEPENDENT mothers.
Karen Shelton38727.7142013889 !-) Pi d`d ra %! b` +$$` /4 %)%! -, $(% `r *$
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Posted By: BIGGMike
Date Posted: Jan 6, 2006 at 4:10pm
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"Black children are only half as likely as white children to be living in a two-parent household, and are eight times more likely than white children to live with an unwed mother.
For black children under six, 'the most common arrangement -- applying to 42 percent of them -- was to live with a never-married mother.'"
citing Andrew J. Cherlin,
Karen Shelton38727.7170486111 !-) Pi d`d ra %! b` +$$` /4 %)%! -, $(% `r *$
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Posted By: BIGGMike
Date Posted: Jan 6, 2006 at 4:17pm
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Are Black Women !-) Pi d`d ra %! b` +$$` /4 %)%! -, $(% `r *$
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Posted By: BIGGMike
Date Posted: Jan 6, 2006 at 4:18pm
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Speak Sistah Speak
By Dr. Safisha Nzingha Hill Adeleke
Those seeking to oppress us got us good. Many of us are truly the ones Dr. Carter G. Woodson spoke of when he suggested someone controlling the mind also controls the actions, because we still automatically go to the back door and create them when there is not one. While other folk have sense enough to take care of, support, build, and preserve their own first, we are still trying to be !-) Pi d`d ra %! b` +$$` /4 %)%! -, $(% `r *$
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Posted By: BIGGMike
Date Posted: Jan 6, 2006 at 4:20pm
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Speak sister Speak!
This is a Real Black Woman with Real African American Pride! We are in trouble yall and some people are lost. !-) Pi d`d ra %! b` +$$` /4 %)%! -, $(% `r *$
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Posted By: BIGGMike
Date Posted: Jan 11, 2006 at 4:55pm
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Notice no one bother with this one because they KNOW IT'S TRUE WHEN......
1. University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. That means it can be proven!!
2. Dr. Safisha Nzingha Hill Adeleke (a FEMALE)
3. By Julia McNamee Neenan (HealthSCOUT Reporter)
4. The Government and Social scientist
All say it's true! That when you know you have struck a nerve.
So keep it ignoring this topic HATERS!
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Posted By: Sistaslick
Date Posted: Jan 11, 2006 at 7:09pm
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I mean ITA with the article by Dr. Safisha. that was a great article. She's an educated black woman and I admire that. Would you feel the same way about her if you found out that she beat out a brotha for her job simply b/c she was a woman and black? Or that she was one of the "Super-sistas" that the first article by Mr Bud Johnson that looked down on a brotha who was educationally and financially "beneath her"? |
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