Post-Divorce Adjustment of Black and White Single Parents

Fine, Mark A.; McKenry, Patrick C.; Chung, Hyun Soo

doi:10.1300/j087v17n03_08

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“…In a study using data from the National Survey of Families and Households, Koball (1998) found that African American men married at increasingly later ages as the twentieth century progressed, by contrast, for White American men, the age at first marriage decreased in the middle of the century and increased toward the end. African American marriages are also more likely to be disrupted by divorce (Cherlin 1998;Fine et al 1992). Staples (1999a) indicates that by comparison to divorce rates for White Americans which is about 50%, the divorce rate for African Americans is approximately 67%.…”

Section: Marriage Among African Americansmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Subsequently, because of the importance of the extended family in family functioning, marriage may not assume the same importance that it does when families are based around the marriage unit. Cherlin (1998) and Fine et al (1992) note the role which these cultural factors may play in lower marriage and higher divorce rates among African Americans. The reason that marriage might not be as central to African Americans as it is for White Americans is that they have extended family networks to insulate them in the face of economic and demographic hardships that impede their ability to form stable marriages and families.…”

Section: African American Cultural Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, Fine et al (1992), in a study of African Americans and White Americans from the National Survey of Families and Households, found that there were no significant differences on adjustment measures including health, depression, life satisfaction and quality of life for African and White Americans (p. 130). In another study of 50 middle-class, post-divorce African American males (Lawson and Thompson 1995), it was that found several factors helped them adjust positively to divorce.…”

Section: Divorcementioning

confidence: 99%

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Marriage Among African Americans: What Does the Research Reveal?

Dixon

2008

J Afr Am St

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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 likely to stay married. Factors contributing to the marriage status of African Americans include structural, cultural, individual and interactive factors. Structural factors include the disparity in sex ratios between African American males and females and employment instability among African American males. Cultural factors include changing cultural trends such as marriage not being a perquisite for sex, the independence of women, the shift from familism to individualism, cohabitation as an increasing option, and the promotion of the values of materialism and patriarchy through popular culture. Individual factors stem from an internalization of cultural values that affects people's perceptions of marriage and their expectations of potential mates, their willingness to commit to a relationship that can lead to marriage, and, once they marry, their willingness to sustain the marriage through the challenges it will face. Added to this is the fact that, until recent federal funding in 2006, there was little or no education to help couples sustain relationships to marriage or sustain the marriage after they are married. In addition, all members of US society are expected to conform to the dominant group's idea of the monogamous, nuclear family. This forces those who opt for other life styles e.g., gay and lesbian, polygynous, etc., to stay in cohabitating relationships. All of these factors contributes to African Americans being less likely to marry and more likely to divorce.

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Section: Marriage Among African Americansmentioning

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Section: African American Cultural Valuesmentioning

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Section: Divorcementioning

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Marriage Among African Americans: What Does the Research Reveal?

Dixon

2008

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“…As I began reading the literature on Black families and romantic relationships I was met with some contradictions. Although some research emphasized the strengths of Black families (Marks et al, 2008), much of what I encountered positioned Black intimate life as deficient, dysfunctional, and generally of poor quality: “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 likely to stay married” (Dixon, 2009, p. 29; see also Cherlin, 1998; Fine et al, 1992; Staples, 1999). These contradictions were often rooted in racialized (Williams & Baker, 2021) and heterosexist views of marriage and attributed to an unbalanced sex ratio emerging from a lack of “marriageable Black men” (see Johnson & Loscocco, 2015).…”

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Unveiling motivations and keeping what's sacred: Engaging reflexivity in a research program on diverse romantic relationships

Rice

2023

J of Family Theo & Revie

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Guided by Allen's (2023) call for developing a critical consciousness, this paper applies feminist reflexive practice to uncover the personal curiosities and contradictions that have motivated my research program on diverse romantic relationships. Specifically, I examine faith, race, and heterosexism as the root of an unresolved collision of privilege and oppression that undergird my burgeoning research program. I begin by reviewing my own positionality before sharing how my personal experiences with family and identity collided with my profession. Finally, I discuss how the personal and professional have motivated praxis, or the leveraging of research as a pathway toward social justice. In doing so, I unveil how personal motivations and complacency in oppression shaped the development of my research program in hopes of spurring innovative theorizing and empirical research rooted in the authenticity of lived experiences.

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Adjustment to Violent and Natural Deaths in Later and Earlier Life for Black and White Widows

2000

The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences an

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Post-Divorce Adjustment of Black and White Single Parents

Cited by 8 publications

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Marriage Among African Americans: What Does the Research Reveal?

Marriage Among African Americans: What Does the Research Reveal?

Unveiling motivations and keeping what's sacred: Engaging reflexivity in a research program on diverse romantic relationships

Adjustment to Violent and Natural Deaths in Later and Earlier Life for Black and White Widows

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