The Decline in Marriage Among African Americans : Causes, Consequences, and Policy Implications /

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The Decline in Marriage Among African Americans firmly positions declining marriage within an ominous cycle of economic and social erosion that finds increasing numbers of women struggling to raise children and manage families alone. The authors of concluding essays propose specific policies for rel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Mitchell-Kernan, Claudia, Tucker, M. Belinda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 1995.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Aufsatzsammlung
Eheschliessung
African Americans > Marriage.
African American families.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Familles noires americaines.
Noirs americains > Mariage.
Schwarze.
USA.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Trends in African American family formation : a theoretical and statistical overview / M. Belinda Tucker and Claudia Mitchell-Kernan
  • Black family structure in colonial and antebellum Virginia : amending the revisionist perspective / Brenda E. Stevenson
  • The effect of employment on marriage among Black males in inner-city Chicago / Mark Testa and Marilyn Krogh. Commentary / Sheldon Danziger
  • The widening gap between Black and white marriage rates : context and implications / Robert Schoen. Commentary / David M. Heer
  • Mate availability and marriage among African Americans : aggregate- and individual-level analyses / K. Jill Kiecolt and Mark A. Fossett. Commentary / A. Wade Smith
  • Marital behavior and expectations : ethnic comparisons of attitudinal and structural correlates / M. Belinda Tucker and Claudia Mitchell-Kernan. Commentary / James S. Jackson
  • Marital instability among Black and white couples in early marriage / Shirley Hatchett, Joseph Veroff, and Elizabeth Douvan
  • Commentary / Hector F. Myers
  • Unemployment and imbalanced sex ratios : race-specific consequences for family structure and crime / Robert J. Sampson. Commentary / Melvin L. Oliver
  • Family structure and the marginalization of Black men : policy implications / William A. Darity, Jr., and Samuel L. Myers, Jr. Commentary / Philip J. Bowman
  • Policy implications of a decline in marriage among African Americans / Lynn C. Burbridge
  • African American marital trends in context : toward a synthesis / M. Belinda Tucker and Claudia Mitchell-Kernan.

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