Baffour K. Takyi is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Akron, Ohio. His varied research interests include reproductive related behavior, family dynamics, and African immigrants in the U.S. He has published extensively with some of his papers appearing in edited volumes on family and in journals such as Journal of Marriage and Family, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Comparative Family, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Sociological Focus, Family Perspectives, Sociology of Religion, African Journal of Reproductive Health, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Western Jou...