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the “most anti-social, inadequate and aberrant group, according to “Moynihan (1965) on behalf on the Unites States” as cited by Johnson (2016). Despite African Americans mother’s cycle of poverty, despair and deprivation, Black women still managed to groom their daughter toward academic achievement. Although quantitative researchers have proven that African American daughter became college achievers, researchers remain subjective on how single mothers were instilling excellence in their daughter. They remain subjective on the analysis because they don’t know how African female are academically smart, by being raised by a single parent whose income. In a pathological study on African American single mothers, the study found that, first the

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