Biological parenting has drop at double the rate since the 1950’s. Divorce is the number one reason in the United States. In the African American community most single parents have never been married, but there is a deeper problem that must be evaluated. Historical factors such as generations of slavery, where families were separated, oppressed and being treated like animals is a factor that has set the pattern for maladaptive behaviors that have develop from these learned experiences and passed down from one generation to the next. In today’s society African Americans have the highest rate of single parent homes, children born out of wedlock, and born fighting withdraw due to a drug addicted mother. In the late 1980’s crack hit the African American urban areas in full force children
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These children are taken into state custody while others were lucky enough to be placed with extended family members; such as grandparents, aunts or older siblings who are too old or too young to be raising children. With no since of belonging or stability most children that bounced from foster home to foster home, shelters, jails, and prisons are victims of a judicial system that repeatedly failed them. African American children are suffering in today society because mothers are addicted, and the black youth emotional development is already damaged being born only to fight withdraw from an addiction that they had no choice in the matter. Fifty six percent of children born to addicted parents lose one or both parents. Studies show that children do well when both parents are involved to provide a child with a sense of who they are and to where they belong. American black youth are in a constant state of trouble because poor choices are made by parents who are not responsible enough to protect themselves and the children that they are
These children are taken into state custody while others were lucky enough to be placed with extended family members; such as grandparents, aunts or older siblings who are too old or too young to be raising children. With no since of belonging or stability most children that bounced from foster home to foster home, shelters, jails, and prisons are victims of a judicial system that repeatedly failed them. African American children are suffering in today society because mothers are addicted, and the black youth emotional development is already damaged being born only to fight withdraw from an addiction that they had no choice in the matter. Fifty six percent of children born to addicted parents lose one or both parents. Studies show that children do well when both parents are involved to provide a child with a sense of who they are and to where they belong. American black youth are in a constant state of trouble because poor choices are made by parents who are not responsible enough to protect themselves and the children that they are