The statistic that 70% of black women are single prompted me to write this book, I've made amazing discoveries, I wasn't aware of before... My book "Food for the Soul" is available at www.amazon.com; www.authorhouse.com and Barnes & Noble.
Family, which is produced in its most healthiest forms, through marriage, makes marriage an important factor, especially to our community:
"The marriage rate for African Americans has been dropping since the 1960s, and today, we have the lowest marriage rate of any racial group in the United States."
"Today the number of children born into a black marriage averages less than 0.9 children per marriage. 'The birthrates of black married women have fallen so sharply that absent out-of-wedlock child-bearing, the African American population would not only fail to reproduce itself, but would rapidly die off."
"African American women are the least likely in our society to marry. In the period between 1970 and 2001, the overall marriage rate in the U.S. declined by 17%; but for blacks, it fell 34%."
Higher rates of black child poverty are linked to higher levels of black single parenthood.
"Divorce and marriage play a much bigger economic role for black children than white children in the U.S. In the first 2 years following a divorce, family income among white children falls about 30%, while it falls by 53% among black children. The difference increases dramatically in the long run. 3 or more years after the divorce, about a 3rd of the loss in whites' household income is recouped, but the income of black families barely improves..."
-UC Davis economists, Marianne Page & Ann Huff Stevens
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