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Changes in Black Family Structure: The Conflict between Family Ideology and Structural Conditions Export

by: Robert Staples
Journal of Marriage and the Family, Vol. 47, No. 4. (November 1985), pp. 1005-1013.

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The family ideology of black Americans is compared with actual family arrangements and lifestyles. Dissonance between the two is explained by the intervention of structural conditions that prevent the fulfillment of normative familial roles by black males. Exchange theory is used to explain the conflict between family ideology and structural conditions: in general, black women fail to marry or remain married when the costs outweigh the benefits of such an arrangement.


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