From: Washingtontimes.com
Marriage found to improve blacks’ lives
By Cheryl Wetzstein
Excerpted
Marriage benefits black families and can even make a difference in whether a family with children lives in poverty, but has little or no impact on a couple’s health, according to a new study.
These benefits, however, are not always evenly distributed within the black family. It appears that men and children — especially boys — are helped more from marriage than women, said Linda Malone-Colon, co-author of “The Consequences of Marriage for African Americans.”
…”[W]hen African-American boys live with their father in the home — particularly their married father — they typically receive substantially more parental support,” the report said. As a result, black boys of married parents tend to do better in school and markedly are less likely to become delinquent. (more…)
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Wetzstein also mentions that according to US Census data, 80 percent of black families were headed by married couples in 1950 in comparison to only 34% of today.
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