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Can Black Mothers Raise Our Sons?

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The book came and is as it was featured in the ad. I haven't read it yet but I'm sure it will turn out to be a bargain.

Thank you for being fast and fair!

Dr. Lawson Bush, V has contributed a scholarly masterpiece to the African American parenting genre.

Anyone interested in a definitive answer to the question of whether African American Mothers are capable of raising African American Sons, must read his novel.

Dr. Bush, V provides readers with an historic and contextual analysis about: definitions of masculinity, gender acculturation, European (mainstream American) family constructs, and African family constructs.

By surveying mothers and their sons, Dr. Bush, V has gleened (best practies) and in turn, discovered sound (parenting strategies).

He ends his novel with a cliff-hanger - - What is that unique and unspoken "it" that most African American males and females believe African American Mothers are not equipped with, to convey to their African American Sons, in order to make them into men?

I thought this was a great book.So many mothers are forced to raise their children alone.I plan to give this book to every single mother i know.

THE FIRST PROBLEM I HAD WAS THE TITLE ALONE. CAN BLACK MOTHERS RAISE OUR SONS, IS THERE ANOTHER RACE OF WOMEN WHO CAN DO BETTER: PRODUCE MORE TIGER WOODS AND ALICIA KEYS. AND IT ALSO IGNORES BLACK DAUGHTERS TO BE LEFT TO BE PREYED ON BY PREDATORS LIKE R-KELLY. HE COULDVE EASILY NAMED THE BOOK "HOW TO RAISE BLACK SONS" FOR THE SIMPLE FACT SO MANY WOMEN OF OTHER RACES HAVE CHILDREN BY BLACK MEN. THE SAD PART IS 70% OF BLACK WOMEN ARE SINGLE MOTHERS RAISING CHILDREN ALL BY THEIRSEVLES, WHY WONT THE AUTHOR ASK "WHY WONT BLACK MEN HELP BLACK WOMEN RAISE THEIR OWN FLESH AND BLOOD". IN NEARLY 50 YEARS ALL RETIREMENT HOMES FOR THE ELDERLY WILL BE FILLED WITH BITTER BLACK MEN WHO ABANDONED THEIR CHILDREN AND ON THEIR DEATH BEDS WILL BE THE ONLY TIME IN THEIR LIVES THEY'LL REALIZE EVERY MISTAKE THEY'VE DONE AND SEE EXACTLY HOW AND MILLIONS OF BLACK CHILDREN ARE FATHERLESS DUE TO FINGER POINTING AND BLAMING INSTEAD OF BEING REAL MEN AND TAKING CARE OF THEIR RESPONSIBILITY.