The document discusses the impact of absentee fathers on children's well-being. It notes that in 2013, 71.5% of black children in the US were born to unmarried women. Research shows that children fare best in stable family environments with consistent parenting. Family disruption, such as multiple school or job changes for parents, can compromise a child's well-being by causing stress and instability. A 1965 US labor report found that breaking down the family structure, as occurred under slavery, disrupts the transmission of appropriate nurturing behavior from parents to children.

1. W H O S R A S I N G O U R C H I L D R E N
Absentee Black Father

2. T O M B U R E L L E
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3. in 2013 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data showed 71.5 percent of black,
non-Hispanic children were born to unmarried women.Children fare best in stable family
environments in which well-adjusted parents have established consistent routines. Family
turbulence, such as multiple school or parental employment changes, or a dramatic decline
in parent health, family trauma, unexpected transitions are linked to lower levels of child
well-being.
Brown.S, Marriage and Child Well-Being: Research and Policy Perspectives, J Marriage Fam.
2010 Oct 1; 72(5): 1059–1077
More broadly, family conflict or disruption, which often coincides with economic instability and inconsistent
parenting, is stressful for children and therefore can compromise their well-being.

4. This paradigm is propagated by the 1965 U. S.
Department of Labor report “ The Negro Family,”
explained the consequences of manipulating the
family hierarchy: With the family, each new
generation of young males learns the appropriate
nurturing behavior and superimposes upon their
biologically given maleness, this learned parental
role. When the family breaks down — as it does
under slavery … these deliberate lines of
transmission are broken.
Brown.S, Marriage and Child Well-Being: Research and Policy Perspectives, J Marriage Fam. 2010 Oct 1; 72(5):
1059–1077