I like being wrong sometimes
by Prometheus 6
Sat, 2006-03-25 09:05
Sat, 2006-03-25 09:05
I expected to be annoyed when I read the title of Joy Jones' editorial: Marriage Is for White People. I kept waiting for the twist that "proves" Black people are harlots by nature.
Most single black women over the age of 30 whom I know would not mind getting married, but acknowledge that the kind of man and the quality of marriage they would like to have may not be likely, and they are not desperate enough to simply accept any situation just to have a man. A number of my married friends complain that taking care of their husbands feels like having an additional child to raise. Then there's the fact that marriage apparently can be hazardous to the health of black women. A recent study by the Institute for American Values, a nonpartisan think tank in New York City, indicates that married African American women are less healthy than their single sisters.
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I really enjoyed that
I really enjoyed that article. Several of the claims made need to be empirically tested--i.e. the claim that daughters have more trouble if their fathers are not part of thier lives. Where I really agree with the author is about the age gap issue. So many women in the twenties are into marriage, and men at those ages could care less, but I think if women make it into their 30 and men are finally ready to nest. The fact that a woman is already well established is a really deterrent to moving or starting a new life again.
It is also a pretty well established fact that, Black families are a bell weather for the trends in this country. Whatever happens to Black folks happens to Whites 30 years later.