Those numbers are trumped, however, by the median wealth of a single ... families, regardless of the number of parents in the family. Reasons for the racial wealth gap are rooted in racist ...

However, supporting an observation that there were more two-parent black families during ... “Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families,” the pledge said, “yet sadly ...

The breakdown of the black family ... any doubt that African-American children would be better off living with their married parents. Kids who grow up in households headed by a single mother ...

But poor black families endure huge problems — high rates of divorce, single parents, and out-of-wedlock births. At the same time, African-American women are very religious. According to a ...

are single-parent families. The share of American families with children living with a single parent has tripled since 1965. The large majority of those single-parent families, approximately 75 ...

It helped greatly that the eminent African ... an outlier in family breakdown. A Pew study of 130 countries found that American children were more likely to live with a single parent than those ...

"Many African American families are run by single moms, whose diagnosis brings feelings of shame." Children of Black single-parent households whose parents are diagnosed with cancer also felt a ...

Parents can help their children by giving ... at the impact of parental advice and youth support seeking in African American families. The research is published in the journal Social Development.

Segregation and redlining by banks made it impossible for many black and Latino families to secure mortgages, for example. The GI Bill, which helped establish an American middle class by helping ...