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• Title: Kin Networks and Poverty Among African Americans: Past and Present (Report)
• Author : Social Work
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 207 KB

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Many current public policies and programs that affect poor African Americans place increasing responsibility on families to provide their members with child care, kinship foster care, financial resources, and other types of vital support. The design of these policies, thus, is predicated on the existence of strong family systems to mitigate the stresses and challenges of poverty. Here we examine diverse research evidence and argue that the a priori assumption by social workers that historically viable kin networks remain as reliable sources of support among poor African Americans as they were in the past must be re-examined in the current sociopolitical environment. Studies of kin networks among African Americans during the first several decades of the 20th century emphasized how they supported the capacities of network members to survive harsh economic and social oppression through sharing resources, often facilitating work activity and so contributing to upward mobility over generations (Hill, 1972). Subsequent changes in the structure of economic opportunity, deteriorating urban community resources, and the effect of long-term family poverty have diminished the functional capacities of some kin networks while placing greater demands on them. By examining historical and current literature about kin networks among low-income African Americans, we draw attention to broad changes in kin networks in their structure and function and how well they meet members' needs in the contemporary context. This knowledge is important for social workers to avoid abdicating responsibility to advocate for and to provide assistance to families in need.

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