Telling our stories : culturally different adults reflect on growing up in single-parent families

Five decades ago, I was challenged to read the Moynihan Report (1965). Then and now, I take issue with much of the content, which smacks of deficit thinking, blaming the victim, and a blindness or almost total disregard for how systemic racism and social injustices contribute to family structures.I...

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Other Authors Ford, Donna Y. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing Inc., [2017]
Subjects
Single-parent families.
Single parents.
Single mothers.
Child rearing.
Family & Relationships > Parenting > Single Parent.
Sociology: family and relationships.
Parenting: advice and issues.
Solo lifestyles: advice and issues.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806608942
DOI10.1108/978-1-68123-839-5
Physical Description1 online resource (xii, 213 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Donna Y. Ford
  • Strong shoulders on which i stand / Sheree N. Alexander
  • Growing up single : An unorthodox road traveled / Anael Alston
  • Growing up in a single-parent family home / Rhonesha Blache
  • My story is not unique : Challenging stereotypes and honoring my mother / Dionne A. Blue
  • For the love of him: Single parenting and the
  • Tenacity of spirit / Stephanie Boyle
  • Breaking the cycle / Mordecai I. Brownlee
  • Against the odds : Perspectives of an African-american woman nurtured in a single-mother home / Dawn Mills Campbell
  • Not at risk : But rather at promise / LaTonya Frazier
  • "a family-type spirit" : Recognizing power in the village / Wyletta Gamble-Lomax
  • Product of the "ghetto" : A learning success story / Aaron J. Griffen
  • The rise of the remarkable and resilient single mother / Breshawn Harris
  • Our family world : Setting the tone for diligence, education, and societal contributions / Michelle Howard-Vital
  • Those ovaltine nights with my mother au : In apa / Charemi Jones
  • A tale of two states : Despair and triumph more in titles / Moss
  • Monarchs : Defying odds and achieving success / Charissa M. Owens
  • Performing love : A complex man showing off his simplicity / Stuart Rhoden
  • Success is not an option : Being raised by a black single teenage parent / Telvis M. Rich
  • As a single parent, my mother always believed / Shawn Anthony Robinson
  • Reconciling a faceless father and a single mother / Christopher J. P. Sewell
  • Coming from a single parent and, at times, a dual parent home does not define my destiny / Shonta Smith
  • Defying expectations imposed on single-parent mothers and their children / Eric Stallings
  • She ain't yo' average chic : How a single mom raised above avaraage children / Michelle Trotman Scott
  • Memory lost : An unknowing journey through seasons / Brandon Wallace
  • Doing it with one parent and owning every minute of it / Dominique D. Williams
  • Epilogue: My mother, my hero, and my role model / Donna Y. Ford
  • About the authors.

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