BLACK DIVORCE RATE HIGHER THAN WHITES OR HISPANICS

Plus only 42% of black adults are married.
(November 1, 2007)

According to the latest government figures, African American couples are divorcing at a higher rate than either whites or Hispanics.

The divorce rate for Blacks currently stands at 12 percent. This compares to 10 percent of white couples divorcing each year and 7 percent of Hispanic couples.

Authorities are not sure why African Americans are separating at a higher rate.

According to other figures published online by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Healthy Marriage Initiative, 42 percent of Black adults are married compared to 61 percent of white adults and 59 percent of Hispanic adults.

Meanwhile, an estimated 68 percent of African American children are born to unmarried women compared to 29 percent of white and 44 percent of Hispanic children.

Also, 62 percent of Black households are headed by a single parent compared to 27 percent of white households and 35 percent of Hispanic households. The government's Healthy Marriage Initiative was created by the Department of Health and Human Services

 

Wow, those are big and different numbers. I wonder why this is so?

 

I doubt those numbers have been ajusted regarding to socio-economic status...

 

You won't have to wonder long

Whatever's wrong with Blacks today will be wrong with whites tomorrow.

In other words..

Don't look at race..look at the CONDITIONS..

At least we're not losing our wives to 6th graders :lol:

 

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

I remember a few months back some conservatives were going on about the breakdown in the black family structure within black communities. Plenty of it came around during the 1960-1980s liberal movements. Those traditional values were lost.

 

I don't think it's primarely the loss of traditional values. During the 60-80's women got less dependent on men. An increasing number of women got higher education, and a lot of new proffesions that traditionally belonged to men, where opened up to women. Women seems to have gotten a lot more secure about themself. They knew they could provide for themself and their kids. Then, naturally, you don't put up with a lot of that bs several of the women earlier went through. (In the 60-80s when divorce became common, it was the women who took the initiative to it. That has evened out a lot.)

I know a lot of older women who have stayed in extremely poor marriages because they didn't have an option. I also know one who moved away from her husband, who was an alcoholic and was abusive, but she never divorced him. I don't know how common the latter example is, but it was probably not just her. Remeber, marriages like that has never been shown on any statistics over divorce- and that makes it look like couples where "happier" in the 50s than in the 80s.

 

hetero, whether I agree with them or not, usually I get your posts but I have no idea what you mean here...