Considering African Americans and American Culture

Some of the sociological theories relating to Black family life are:Single parenting, this is due to the unemployment, underemployment and aslo incarceration of Black males. This makes it difficult forBlack male to maintain family relationships.
Welfare - because there is no Black male to provide for his family,a single parent with low income has to turn to government for help.
Incarceration - because Black men dont get enough oppotunites, some of them turn to crime and violence which leads to imprisionment and this affects the family economically and socially.
Looking at Black families as deficient and dysfunctional allows the dominant group in society to think of them negatively. The misrepresentation of a Black single mother is that she is on welfare and she is not able raised her children with proper standards, and these children are likely to turn to crime and violence because their is no father role. However, there are so many Black single mothers who raised their children to be respectable and intelligent individuals. Also some men rised by their mothers are more nurting and loving and are capable of maintainig sucessful marriages and relationships. Moreover, some black single mothers chose this lifestyle because they dont want to get married,husband dies or they or divorce.
Our defnition of a nuclear family is so narrow because we tend to follow, or maybe forced to follow what the dominant group regard as a nuclear family. We are made to believe that the dominant culture family is the right family and we as Blacks should try to live that lifestyle.Society should try and see that the Black family is a part of their African heritage, where the extended family and the community plays an important role in the Black family.
Black people doesnt get the same opportunity as Whites.They are not provided with the same economical resources as whites which leads to more unemployment and underemployment of Blacks than Whites. A large number Black Men are incarcerated making it more difficult for Blacks than Whites to maintain a nuclear family.