Main Argument: Different cultures expect different things from families, especially mothers and how they raise their children in comparison to what is believed to be ‘normal’.
- Types of families (where they are most commonly found)
- Specifying down to what is seen on average in African American families
- Focusing on mothers and fathers and their role in a family
- Look at real case examples of mothers and fathers
- Compare the cases to the books that we read in class
- Where is the Nuclear Family ‘normal’?
- Types of Families
- Two Generation families
- Three Generation families
- Patriarchal or Matriarchal
- Stem
- Joint
- Fully Extended
- Divorce
Black women are more likely to become teenage mothers and stay single/have marriage instability.
Black community has a 72% rate of being born to unwed mothers, which is more than the U.S. average population which is 41%.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/230090
http://archive.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2010/11/06/blacks_struggle_with_72_percent_unwed_mothers_rate/
African American families are often regarded as poor, fatherless, dependent of governmental assistance, and involved in producing a multitude of kids outside of wedlock
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0021934705286101
THUG
The other talk was about what to do if a cop stopped me.
17
She hasn’t acted like a mom to him! Now all of the sudden, he’s her baby?
63
Those were the hardest three years of my life. Growing up I was pissed at my daddy for going to prison and leaving me. And there I was, in the same prison as him, missing out on my babies lives.
116
Drown
Mami shipped me and Rafa out to the campo every summer…we stayed with our tios.
3-4
I lived without a father for the first nine years of my life. He was in the states working…
69
Abuelo was supposed to watch us while Mami was at work…
72
When times are real flojo, she packed us off to our relatives.
74
Case 1
Case 2
REFERENCES
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1061&context=orpc
https://ifstudies.org/blog/family-structure-and-childrens-health/
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/434051-story-of-mother-sentenced-to-jail-for-enrolling-child-in
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/12/702539140/u-s-accuses-actresses-others-of-fraud-in-wide-college-admissions-scandal
