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Article: Western Values Are Destroying The Black Family
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- The Philadelphia Tribune
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- June 16, 1995
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Kenneth Snodgrass
Philadelphia Tribune, The
06-16-1995
Western Values Are Destroying The Black family.
I have always tried to point out the importance of how we as a race have to break form the vicious cycle of Western thought of male domination of females in our human relationships, i.e. male chauvinism.
Things have continued to deteriorate to the point that the African family is also being threatened. We find ourselves plagued with an epidemic of teenage childbirth, venereal disease and single-parent families.
Study of family systems in the past has shown that the family, prior to this present breakdown during the industrialization period, had four areas of importance: (1) production, (2) ...