African American Family Structure

African American Family Structure

Introduction

An African American family shares several features with other families of America. The African American family has some characteristics which are related to timing, marriages and formation of families and roles of gender and parenting styles and different strategies for copying with adversity (Barbarin, 2008). African American families have some main characteristics such as:

African American families are tightly well organized and which is extended into different family units.

Agreements are involved in marriages between African American families not agreements among between couples. It is better fro families and couples for upcoming days and future.

The organization of family is matrilineal.

The American African families have expended family structure according to modern era and trends. Predecessor American African families are adopting modern family structure.

Slave history of African American Families

The system of slavery and the use of the labor of slaves, which existed in the U.S. in 1619 - one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five years. Most slaves were Africans forcibly exported from places of residence, and their descendants.

Life of American African during slavery was miserable and worst situation. African American people spend life as a salve every child was born in slave he must become slave and spend his life as a slave. The condition of African American was worst white American thought that the are salve for whole life. They treated just like animal. American families were the symbol of slavery. They worked at low wages both women and men worked under white American. At the time of slavery and African American was spending life as a slave and under the discouragement, many slaves was well organized themselves into family structure. The family structure of American African was just like nuclear families. But now trend has changed and they adopt modern things every African American spend life with ...