The Black Extended Family
Through their eight-year study of some thirty extended families, the Martins find that economic pressures, including federal tax and welfare laws, have begun to make the extended family's flexibility into a liability that threatens its future.
1. The Extended Family: How Is It Formed and What Does It Do?
2. The Dominant Family Figure
3. The Mutual Aid System
4. Absorption and Informal Adoption
5. Relations between Old and Young
6. Sex, Courtship, and Marriage
7. Status and Power: Relations between Lower and Middle Class
8. Problems of Urban Life
9. A Look into the Past and into the Future
Appendix: Overview of Literature on the Black Family