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Title: Single Parents Can’t Raise Black Children
Citation Type: Book, Section
Publication Year: 2019
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DOI: 10.1163/9789004397040_006
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Abstract: Do Black children have natural disadvantages in school because most are from single-parent homes? Several years ago, before his conviction for sexual assault, comedian and actor, Bill Cosby, chided the "apathy" he observed among Black parents (Roberts, 2007). He, like many others, believes that the fading presence of the Black nuclear family places Black children at a social disadvantage, and creates a burden on society. The link between father absence and community dissonance among Black people was postulated almost 50 years ago in the U.S. Depart1nent of Labor's Moynihan report (Ziegler, 1995). Since then, the percent of Black children being raised in single-parent homes has grown from 20 percent to 70 percent. In the United States, 31 percent of Black children have both a mother and a father in the home; 53 percent have o-nly a mother present; 7 percent have only a father present; and 9 percent have neither parent present. 1 These figures have been represented in various ways in the media to portray a single-parent crisis in the Black community.
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Authors: Toldson, Ivory A.
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Pages: 197
Volume Title: No BS (Bad Stats)
Publisher: Brill | Sense
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Topics: Race and Ethnicity
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