African American Families Strengths And Weaknesses

My family encompasses such a multitude of strengths, that it’s difficult to pinpoint which ones bring about the most positivity. Personally, I would argue that loyalty is the quintessential strength within my family. Each of us knows our family members will always look out for us and provide whatever they can to enhance our own sense of happiness. My family also spends gargantuan levels of time together. Without spending this quality time together, we’d have no way of furthering, strengthening, and maintaining our relationships with one another. If you’re not willing to take an interest in your family members lives and vice-versa, there’s no chance of establishing a strong relationship with one another. More specifically, within my family, I maintain relationships using different strengths with different members. For example, my mom has always shown the utmost respect towards honesty. No matter what I’ve done, as long as I’m honest with her, our relationship stays strong. My sister on
Which is a fantastic trait to have as an ethnic group. However, this doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, considering that, “54.8 percent of children lived with either single mothers or single fathers, while 7.5 percent lived with neither parent” (Strong and Cohen, 2013, pg. 97). Another strength within African American families is that marriages are far more egalitarian. Husbands and wives are much more likely to share the workload, rather than assigning traditional duties to each of them. To me, this is a fabulous outlook; in looking at a marriage as equal, you relieve a lot of the stress off of the typical “breadwinner” and “homemaker.” Also, African Americans are much more likely than Caucasians to live in extended households, “households that contain several different generations. Black children are more likely than other children to live in a household with a grandparent.” (Strong and Cohen, 2013, pg.