Family Life in Black America

Most studies of Black families have had a `problem focus offering a narrow view of important issues such as out-of-wedlock births single-parent families and childhood poverty. Family Life in Black America moves away from this negative perspective and instead deals with a wide range of issues including sexuality procreation infancy adulthood adolescence cohabitation parenting grandparenting and ageing. A fresh aspect of this book is the amount of diversity it reveals within black families and the forces that shape limit and enhance them.