Download or read book Marital Perceptions of African Americans written by Pamela J. Dunn and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to explore if, how, and why organizational religion helped African American couples sustain healthy marriages. The study explored a strength-based approach enhancing the strengths and characteristics already present within African American individuals, families, and their communities. This qualitative study was conducted using a phenomenological approach relating to participants lived and human experiences. The research objectives were to explore (1) perceptions that African American Christian couples have about organizational religion helping them to achieve and sustain healthy marriages and (2) perceptions that religious leaders in the church have about organizational religion helping African American Christian couples achieve and sustain healthy marriages. A total of 22 individuals participated in this study. Eighteen participants were married couples and four participants were church leader/administrators. All participants were African American males and females residing in the Dallas/Fort Worth area of the state of Texas in the United States. Of the nine couples interviewed, all participants reported being married, identifying as Christian, and having a religious affiliation (N=18). All participants also reported being active members of their local church attending church services at least once a week. Data were collected from small group interviews, individual interviews, and church leader/administrative interviews. The interviews were audiotaped, transcribed, and analyzed to determine emerging themes. Church artifacts were examined to gauge educational programs offered to its church members. Participation in events sponsored by the church’s Marriage Ministry were surveyed to determine participants involvement in these activities. Themes were determined from small group, individual, and church leader/administrative interviews collectively. Themes from small group interviews included (a) relationship, (b) rigid practices, (c) connection to a higher deity, (d) personal growth/togetherness, (e) church as a support for marriage and (f) balancing church and family dynamics. Themes from individual interviews included (a) model for healthy marriages, (b) teaching, (c) support for married couples, (d) encourages relational bonding, (e) proactive relationship, (f) challenges, and (g) intimacy. Themes from church leader/administrative interviews included (a) marital stability, (b) purposeful approach to the marriage, (c) motivation for ministry, (d) overextension, (e) positive interrelations, and (f) positive reinforcements. Three supporting themes in favor of marital support for couples were identified from church artifacts: (a) teaching, (b) enrichment, and (c) personal growth. Of the comprehensive themes determined, three overarching themes were determined indicative of organizational religion and marital perceptions of African Americans: (1) teaching, (2) modeling, and (3) supporting.
Download or read book Is Marriage for White People written by Ralph Richard Banks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly incendiary-solution. Black women are three times as likely as white women to never marry. That sobering statistic reflects a broader reality: African Americans are the most unmarried people in our nation, and contrary to public perception the racial gap in marriage is not confined to women or the poor. Black men, particularly the most successful and affluent, are less likely to marry than their white counterparts. College educated black women are twice as likely as their white peers never to marry. Is Marriage for White People? is the first book to illuminate the many facets of the African American marriage decline and its implications for American society. The book explains the social and economic forces that have undermined marriage for African Americans and that shape everyone's lives. It distills the best available research to trace the black marriage decline's far reaching consequences, including the disproportionate likelihood of abortion, sexually transmitted diseases, single parenthood, same sex relationships, polygamous relationships, and celibacy among black women. This book centers on the experiences not of men or of the poor but of those black women who have surged ahead, even as black men have fallen behind. Theirs is a story that has not been told. Empirical evidence documents its social significance, but its meaning emerges through stories drawn from the lives of women across the nation. Is Marriage for White People? frames the stark predicament that millions of black women now face: marry down or marry out. At the core of the inquiry is a paradox substantiated by evidence and experience alike: If more black women married white men, then more black men and women would marry each other. This book not only sits at the intersection of two large and well- established markets-race and marriage-it responds to yearnings that are widespread and deep in American society. The African American marriage decline is a secret in plain view about which people want to know more, intertwining as it does two of the most vexing issues in contemporary society. The fact that the most prominent family in our nation is now an African American couple only intensifies the interest, and the market. A book that entertains as it informs, Is Marriage for White People? will be the definitive guide to one of the most monumental social developments of the past half century.
Download or read book African American Adolescent Perceptions of Marriage written by Kristin Michele Smith and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marital trends in the United States have changed tremendously and individuals live as unmarried couples, marry later in life or not at all, and have children prior to marriage more often than they did in the past (Willoughby, 2010). These behaviors occur significantly more often for the Black population than for other racial groups (Crissey, 2005). Proposed contributors to the decreased rates of marriage for the African American population include, but are not limited to, concerns about finances, trust, and loss of social freedom when considering marriage (King & Allen, 2009). African American adolescents also report an expectation to marry in the future significantly less than White adolescents (Crissey, 2005). This suggests that African American youth may internalize culturally relevant ideas about marriage cited in research about African American adults. The current study looked at the relationship between general marital attitudes, culturally relevant ideas (e.g., financial, commitment concerns) about marriage, parental marital status over the course of the lifespan, and socioeconomic status. Results indicated that African American adolescents with continuously married parents over their lifespan felt more positively about marriage in general than those who had unmarried parents at any point. General ideas about marriage were negatively associated with culturally relevant beliefs about marriage, and those who felt more positively about marriage in general were less likely to endorse culturally relevant ideas. Parental marital status at birth was not associated with adolescents' general marital attitudes about marriage, and socioeconomic status was overall a stronger predictor of both African American adolescents' general ideas, and culturally relevant beliefs about marriage than parental marital status.
Download or read book Perceptions of Marital Dissatisfaction Among African American Couples written by Terrence Schofield and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Decline in Marriage Among African Americans written by M. Belinda Tucker and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1995-07-13 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time when the American family has undergone dramatic evolution, change among African Americans has been particularly rapid and acute. African Americans now marry later than any other major ethnic group, and while in earlier decades nearly 95 percent of black women eventually married, today 30 percent are expected to remain single. The black divorcee rate has increased nearly five-fold over the last thirty years, and is double the rate of the general population. The result, according to The Decline in Marriage Among African Americans, is a greater share of family responsibilities being borne by women, an increased vulnerability to poverty and violence, and an erosion of community ties. The original, often controversial, research presented in this book links marital decline to a pivotal drop in the pool of marriageable black males. Increased joblessness has robbed many black men of their economic viability, rendering them not only less desirable as mates, but also less inclined to take on the responsibility of marriage. Higher death rates resulting from disease, poor health care, and violent crime, as well as evergrowing incarceration rates, have further depleted the male population. Editors M. Belinda Tucker and Claudia Mitchell-Kernan and the contributors take a hard look at the effects of chronic economic instability and cultural attitudes toward the male role as family provider. Their cogent historical analyses suggest that the influence of external circumstances over marriage preferences stems in large part from the profoundly damaging experience of slavery. This book firmly positions declining marriage within an ominous cycle of economic and social erosion. The authors propose policies for relieving the problems associated the changing marital behavior, focusing on support for single parent families, public education, and increased employment for African American men.
Download or read book African American Relationships Marriages and Families written by Patricia Dixon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Relationships, Marriages, and Families is a historically and culturally centered text designed for relationship, marriage and family educators and therapists who work with African American singles and couples. Complete with numerous exercises, the book helps singles and couples increase their self-awareness, partner awareness and respect, and appreciation for difference. It also helps foster effective communication and conflict resolution skills, showing readers how to develop and maintain healthy relationships, marriages, and families. No ground is left uncovered in Dixon’s thoughtful and considered analysis.
Download or read book African American College Educated Women s Perceptions of Marriage written by Felecia Veale-Buckson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current study focuses on African American college educated women's perception of marriage, the importance they place on certain mate selection characteristics, and their decision to marry. For the purpose of this study, college educated women are undergraduate female students who have earned at least 90 college credits. A survey was distributed to 300 African American female students who attend the University (a Historically Black College/University on the east coast of the United States). Their perceptions of marriage were significantly different (p.05). Among four mate selection characteristics, gender roles after marriage was ranked extremely important most often (n=281), followed by religiosity (n=263), financial security (n=219), and physical attractiveness (n=165). More than half (57%) of the women in this study reported that they would accept a hypothetical marriage proposal. There was a significantly weak relationship found between the importance of religion and the likelihood of accepting a hypothetical marriage proposal (crv=.159, p.05,). The relationship between the likelihood of accepting the hypothetical marriage proposal and financial security (crv=.144 p.05), gender roles after marriage (crv=.148 p.05), and physical attraction (crv=.108 p>.05) was not significant. The relationship between the likelihood of accepting a hypothetical marriage proposal and the respondents' primary parenting agent and parental marital status was also explored. -- Abstract.
Download or read book A Phenomenological Study of Christian African American Couples and Their Perceptions of Marital Longevity written by Annette V. Hampton and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationship Between Perceived Influences of Race Marital Satisfaction and Depression Among African American Married Partners written by Lawrence Murray and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Is Marriage for White People written by Ralph Richard Banks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly incendiary-solution. Black women are three times as likely as white women to never marry. That sobering statistic reflects a broader reality: African Americans are the most unmarried people in our nation, and contrary to public perception the racial gap in marriage is not confined to women or the poor. Black men, particularly the most successful and affluent, are less likely to marry than their white counterparts. College educated black women are twice as likely as their white peers never to marry. Is Marriage for White People? is the first book to illuminate the many facets of the African American marriage decline and its implications for American society. The book explains the social and economic forces that have undermined marriage for African Americans and that shape everyone's lives. It distills the best available research to trace the black marriage decline's far reaching consequences, including the disproportionate likelihood of abortion, sexually transmitted diseases, single parenthood, same sex relationships, polygamous relationships, and celibacy among black women. This book centers on the experiences not of men or of the poor but of those black women who have surged ahead, even as black men have fallen behind. Theirs is a story that has not been told. Empirical evidence documents its social significance, but its meaning emerges through stories drawn from the lives of women across the nation. Is Marriage for White People? frames the stark predicament that millions of black women now face: marry down or marry out. At the core of the inquiry is a paradox substantiated by evidence and experience alike: If more black women married white men, then more black men and women would marry each other. This book not only sits at the intersection of two large and well- established markets-race and marriage-it responds to yearnings that are widespread and deep in American society. The African American marriage decline is a secret in plain view about which people want to know more, intertwining as it does two of the most vexing issues in contemporary society. The fact that the most prominent family in our nation is now an African American couple only intensifies the interest, and the market. A book that entertains as it informs, Is Marriage for White People? will be the definitive guide to one of the most monumental social developments of the past half century.
Download or read book The Relationship Between African American Mothers Marital Status and Children s Perception of Parental Roles Family Relationships and Future Life Choices written by Shirley L. Ray and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Attitudes Toward Marriage Among African American Singles written by Pamela Lynette Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marriage in Black written by Katrina Bell McDonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the messages we hear from social scientists, policymakers, and the media, black Americans do in fact get married—and many of these marriages last for decades. Marriage in Black offers a progressive perspective on black marriage that rejects talk of black relationship "pathology" in order to provide an understanding of enduring black marriage that is richly lived. The authors offer an in-depth investigation of details and contexts of black married life, and seek to empower black married couples whose intimate relationships run contrary to common—but often inaccurate—stereotypes. Considering historical influences from Antebellum slavery onward, this book investigates contemporary married life among more than 60 couples born after the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Husbands and wives tell their stories, from how they met, to how they decided to marry, to what their life is like five years after the wedding and beyond. Their stories reveal the experiences of the American-born and of black immigrants from Africa or the Caribbean, with explorations of the "ideal" marriage, parenting, finances, work, conflict, the criminal justice system, religion, and race. These couples show us that black family life has richness that belies common stereotypes, with substantial variation in couples’ experiences based on social class, country of origin, gender, religiosity, and family characteristics.
Download or read book Explaining Racial Differences in Family Formation Behavior written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent trends demonstrate that family formation behavior differs significantly by race. This dissertation investigates reasons for racial differences in family formation behavior. My first study examined the influence of parent-child connectedness during adolescence on subsequent marriage formation. Parent-child connectedness did not differ greatly by race. I found that differences were only present for my measure of emotional connectedness for mothers. Black adolescents reported feeling more connected to their mothers than White adolescents. Although emotional measures of parent-child connectedness were not good predictors of marriage formation, connectedness to mothers was a marginally significant predictor. Interactional measures of connectedness were good predictors of marriage formation for both mothers and fathers; although these measures could not explain differences in marital behavior. My second study examined preferred ages for marriage and childbearing as well as the perceived importance of marriage and childbearing by race, Consistent with the descriptive findings that Blacks marry less often and bear children outside of marriage more often than their White counterparts, this study found that on average the preferred age for childbearing was younger than the preferred age for marriage among African American women while White young women preferred to marry before childbearing. When asked about the most important aspect of family formation, Black women consistently viewed marriage as less important than childbearing. White women viewed marriage as the most important aspect of family formation. My third study assessed the influence of marital perceptions and expectation on subsequent marriage formation among unmarried mothers. Respondents who expected to marry were significantly more likely to actually establish a marital union with their baby's father than those with lower expectations. Those who perceived that marriage would be highly beneficial were less likely to actually marry. While somewhat surprising, this finding was consistent with a high marriage bar perspective. Those who expected that marriage would provide great benefits were most likely those who were unwilling to marry until their partners could live up to their high standard for a marriageable mate. I found that marital expectations and perceptions together were useful for helping to explain racial differences in marriage formation.
Download or read book Perceptions of Committed Marriages in African American Heterosexual Couples Married 25 Years and Longer written by Moshae Maddox and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions and provide insight into meanings and factors that contribute to healthy committed marriages among African American heterosexual married couples. This study explored the experiences of couples who had been married for 25 years and longer.
Download or read book African American Men written by Jade N. Olover and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality of Parent child Relationship Self esteem and the Marital Attitudes of African American and Hispanic Young Adults from Divorced and Intact Families written by Kelly L. Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The divorce rate in this country appears to have reached astronomical levels, with as many as half of all first marriages ending in divorce. The nuclear family consisting of the wage-earning father, home-making mother, and subordinate children, is no longer the norm (Fraad, 2001). Parental divorce and marital conflict have been linked to poorer health among children and adolescents, which can follow into adulthood (Gottman & Katz, 1989). Kiernan and Chase-Lansdale (1995) found that by the age of 23, more people from divorced families than from intact families cohabited prior to marriage. In addition, parental divorce increased early sexual experiences, premarital birth, and leaving home due to conflict. Cherlin, Axinn, and Thornton (1996) found that the experience of divorce impacts the perceptions of a mother, and her perceptions then influence her children's values regarding family formation. The psychological effect that divorce has on children of cultural minorities is not fully understood. Bean and Crane (1996) reviewed 2,162 articles in six major psychological journals and found that only 5% percent of the research was conducted on any cultural minority issue. Research conducted with minority offspring of divorced families is sparse and the data is usually incongruous. The present study focused on the self-reported data of college students from minority backgrounds. The aim of this research was to compare African American and Hispanic adult children from divorced and from intact families on the following variables: perceived quality of parent-child relationship, self-esteem, and marital attitudes. The following measures were implemented: The Mother and Father Scales of the Parent-Child Relationship Survey (PCRS: M-F), the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (SES), and the Marital Attitudes Scale (MAS). A series of 2x2 ANOVAs was conducted to explore the relationships of ethnicity and family status with the four composite scales (The PCRS-M, PCRS-F, SES, MAS). Consistent with predictions, the results of this study indicated that individuals from intact families perceived to have better father-child relationships than those from separated/divorced families. In terms of the mother-child relationships, however, there was no difference between the two groups. The findings indicated that the attitudes toward marriage for those from intact families and those from separated/divorced families did not differ. There were no differences between Hispanics and African Americans in terms of the quality of father-child relationships. However, the African American from Separated/Divorced group reported closer relationships to the mother than did Hispanic respondents from the same group. The African American from separated/divorced group reported closer relationships to their mothers than did Hispanics from the same group. African Americans and Hispanics were not found to differ with respect to self-esteem scores, although African Americans had more positive attitudes toward marriage than did Hispanics. The impact that divorcing and/or separating families have on the lives and well-being of children of color was the primary interest of this study. Future efforts should focus on investigating the issues that affect individuals from divergent cultures. This study attempted to add to make a contribution to the literature on the long-term effects of family dissolution on adult children of ethnic people.
