I stumbled across some notes I took while I was conducting research on black family structures. While these stats do not generalize to the entire population of African Americans, the numbers are still very alarming. What are YOU doing to change these stats? As Jay-Z said “men lie, women lie, numbers don’t”… 1. Missing Baby […]
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Greatest Problem of the 21st Century: African American Fathers
July 15, 2011
W.E.B Dubois proclaimed, “The greatest problem of the 20th century is that of the color line”. I believe that the greatest problem of our century is the role of fathers in the African American community. During my internship year of my Masters program, I can count the number of fathers that attended Individualized Education Program […]
The Father Factor: Where Are African American Fathers???
July 4, 2011
Education Factors The National Fatherhood Initiative list several “father factors”, which are essentially effects that the absence of fathers have on society. These father factors have impacts on education, teen pregnancy, poverty, incarceration and delinquency. Father involvement in schools is associated with the higher likelihood of a student getting mostly A’s. This was true for […]
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September 2, 2011
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