Telling Our Stories: Culturally Different Adults Reflect on Growing Up in Single‐Parent Families

ISBN-13: 9781681238371 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 226 str.

Donna Y. Ford

Spis treści

• Introduction, Donna Y. Ford.
• Strong Shoulders on Which I Stand, Sheree N. Alexander.
• Growing Up Single: An Unorthodox Road Traveled, Anael Alston.
• Growing Up in a Single?Parent Family Home, Rhonesha Blache.
• My Story is Not Unique: Challenging Stereotypes and Honoring My Mother, Dionne A. Blue.
• For the Love of Him: Single Parenting and the Tenacity of Spirit, Stephanie Boyle.
• Breaking the Cycle, Mordecai I. Brownlee.
• Against The Odds: Perspectives of an African-American Woman Nurtured in a Single?Mother Home, Dawn Mills Campbell.
• Not at Risk ... But Rather at Promise, LaTonya Frazier.
• “A Family?Type Spirit”: Recognizing Power in the Village, Wyletta Gamble?Lomax.
• Product of the “Ghetto”: A Learning Success Story, Aaron J. Griffen.
• The Rise of the Remarkable and Resilient Single Mother, Breshawn Harris.
• Our Family World: Setting the Tone for Diligence, Education, and Societal Contributions, Michelle Howard-Vital.
• Those Ovaltine Nights With My Mother, Charemi Jones.
• A Tale of Two States: Despair and Triumph, Zaccheus Moss.
• Monarchs: Defying Odds and Achieving Success, Charissa M. Owens.
• Performing Love: A Complex Man Showing off His Simplicity, Stuart Rhoden.
• Success is Not an Option: Being Raised by a Black Single Teenage Parent, Telvis M. Rich.
• As a Single Parent, My Mother Always Believed, Shawn Anthony Robinson.
• Reconciling a Faceless Father and a Single Mother, Christopher J. P. Sewell.
• Coming From a Single Parent and, at Times, a Dual Parent Home Does Not Define My Destiny, Shonta Smith.
• Defying Expectations Imposed on Single?Parent Mothers and Their Children, Eric Stallings.
• She Ain’t Yo’ Average Chic: How a Single Mom Raised Above Average Children, Michelle Trotman Scott.
• Memory Lost: An Unknowing Journey Through Seasons, Brandon Wallace.
• Doing It With One Parent and Owning Every Minute of It, Dominique D. Williams.
• Epilogue: My Mother, My Hero, and My Role Model, Donna Y. Ford.
• About the Authors.