An American Family

Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African-American Family Throughout history, African-American’s have struggled with equality. This article describes the different varieties of impacts that affected all the lives of African-Americans: slavery, gender, the decrease in employment, the northern migration, poverty, and much more. During the time of slavery, it was a lot easier to be married on larger plantation than smaller ones. The large plantations had a bigger variety to…

Being that I am an African American female who has worked closely with teen mothers who were raised by another teen mother, I have seen firsthand the advantages of having an extended family. Berk (2014) discusses why extended families are critical in the African American community, which I found extremely interesting since I have personally seen the importance of extended families in all ethnicities. One of the advantages Berk (2014) discusses is how extended families can relieve stress and…

The Neumann and Stanley families put the “dream” in “The American Dream.” As Frontline covers their situation over the course of two years, we experience the struggles of job insecurity, poverty, and foreclosure. We see not only how the parents are impacted but also the children in the home. Toward the end of the Frontline segment, we are shown how the children learned from their parents and their upbringing. We see the true opportunity for upward mobility in American society today, as well…

Author’s Note In this story you get to experience what life was like for a family of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement. When some very important people in today’s world story was back then. Now today we honor those people in our world because, now we have peace and all people have equal rights. In this story it tells us about how life was like in the view of an African American family. On a breezy summer day down in Memphis,Tennessee Katherine, Danny, her father,…

in Mexico; however my grandparents came from Mexican decedent, fled the Mexican American Civil War, and were born in America in the 1920’s. Having their strong family ties and connection to Mexico they choose to return to Mexico and identify with the Mexican culture to raise their family. My parents settled in a geographical area in Houston East End, where most families were descendants of Mexican American families. The East End is now historically known one of Houston’s oldest Hispanic…

The Non Traditional American Family When I think of family roles, I think of parental gender roles. Traditionally, it has been that of the father supporting the family, and the mother taking care of the children. With growing societal evolvement, that has changed steadily. In many instances the mother is the main financial support for the family, and the father is given the task of caretaking the children. Sometimes both parents contribute, placing the children under the care of a nanny or…

Because he or she may feel like their parents broke the parental commitment to their family, adolescents have been seen to justify their independent ways because of the divorce ( Psychologytoday surviving your child ). Examples of such behavior is when an adolescent says they are not going to consult them on his/her decision because their parents didn’t consult them on the decision of divorce.…

Black family in the enslaved community In some ways enslaved African American families really bear a resemblance to other families who lived in different times and places and under different conditions. Some wives and husband adored each other; some never got along. Children sometimes stood by parent’s rules and restrictions; other times they followed their own thoughts. Majority of the parents loved their children and wanted nothing but protection for them. In some serious ways, though, the…

the African- American family and how social media is affecting African American adolescent's engagement with their families. There is minimal research on the topic of social media and the impact it has on the African American family. Due to the limited amount of research conducted on social media as it pertains to family engagement the research is identified as the gap and will need to be explored so that interventions may be developed to assist with the increase of African-American family's…

The August Wilson play, Fences shows the struggles of an African American family in the 50’s. Cory was wrong to lose respect for his dad because Troy tried to teach him, he provided Cory with the things he needed and cared about him and his life. The first reason why Cory was wrong to lose respect for his dad was that Troy did want to show Cory how to live a successful life. In this scene Troy would not pay for the 200 dollar TV set because he knew the roof had to be repaired. “While you…