Introduction
In What Do Low-Income Single Mothers Say about Marriage? (2000) Kathryn Edlin discusses the ways in which white and black single mothers with low income have to say about marriage. Edlin suggests that race and origin may affect their opinions towards marriage. Whether mothers want to be married before children or after children, when it comes to remarrying or dating often times they do not want because of their concerns and high expectations. Many mothers that have not married or divorced either cohabit with their significant other at the time, or move in with a family member. Also, if those are not options for women it is because they want to be independent and live on their own with the child/children.
Edlin discovered that …show more content…
These distorted perceptions are likely to impact to impact Black women dating because of the expectations are needed to be met. Black women are portrayed to be independent and that they do not need any help in their relationship, and if there is someone that comes into the relationship they are constantly thinking about the same things constantly. One is Affordability because black women are focused on whether or not that the person that is dating better be bringing in the money, and if they are not then are to the next one. Black women are often struggling with herself and her child/children and she does not need a man ruining it by taking her money. Another factor is respectability, if there is not respect towards her then she expects to find someone that does or she will get rid of him or her. Again, there needs to not be bringing any negativity into the relationship because she wants to protect her child/children. The final factor is control, it is that Black women want to be in control of how and when things are
In What Do Low-Income Single Mothers Say about Marriage? (2000) Kathryn Edlin discusses the ways in which white and black single mothers with low income have to say about marriage. Edlin suggests that race and origin may affect their opinions towards marriage. Whether mothers want to be married before children or after children, when it comes to remarrying or dating often times they do not want because of their concerns and high expectations. Many mothers that have not married or divorced either cohabit with their significant other at the time, or move in with a family member. Also, if those are not options for women it is because they want to be independent and live on their own with the child/children.
Edlin discovered that …show more content…
These distorted perceptions are likely to impact to impact Black women dating because of the expectations are needed to be met. Black women are portrayed to be independent and that they do not need any help in their relationship, and if there is someone that comes into the relationship they are constantly thinking about the same things constantly. One is Affordability because black women are focused on whether or not that the person that is dating better be bringing in the money, and if they are not then are to the next one. Black women are often struggling with herself and her child/children and she does not need a man ruining it by taking her money. Another factor is respectability, if there is not respect towards her then she expects to find someone that does or she will get rid of him or her. Again, there needs to not be bringing any negativity into the relationship because she wants to protect her child/children. The final factor is control, it is that Black women want to be in control of how and when things are