Black Professor Says It’s Welfare, Not Slavery, That Decimated US Black Families
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I have not looked into this topic extensively, so I wonder whether you might have studied this topic and whether you can answer this question without spending much time on it:
Are family units where children are reared and raised primarily or solely by their parents the norm in Sub-Saharan Africa, rural and/or urban? Or is it the norm that children are reared and raised primarily by a whole village or similar grouping, instead of primarily or solely their parents, and where parentage of children matters less? If you have studied this topic and know of any sources and material reg. it, I would greatly appreciate it.
I do not know whether or not it is the norm in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, I do know it was not the norm for Blacks in America until after the passage of welfare. According to Herbert Gutman’s research on the Black Family in Slavery & Freedom covering data from 1750-1925, 85% of Black families were double-headed, which means both mother and father were in the family. Gutman’s research is never quoted because it dispels the myth that slavery is responsible for broken black families. Before you ask, yes Gutman’s research looked at the inner city & rural. More surprisingly was that his study covered unskilled, lower class blacks. Now contrast that too this same group of people who populate these areas today. Single out of wedlock black mothers as single head of households mostly populate the inner city.
Thank you for the answer, but as you write yourself, that doesn't answer my question. I have already heard about such research reg. the USA, but not reg. Sub-Saharan Africa.