Caring for Aging Parents: Family Meeting

Coordinating family caregiving responsibilities for aging parents The Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving is dedicated to providing family caregivers with the support, training and resources they need to ensure quality care for their aging loved ones. Yet, most caregivers continue to enter the caregiving process with little or no knowledge of what comprehensive geriatric care [...]

Sites We Like: BlackYouthProject.com

What: The Black Youth Project, recently featured on ABC News,  is a national research project out of the University of Chicago that examines the attitudes, resources, and culture of African American youth ages 15 to 25, exploring how these factors and others influence their decision-making, norms, and behavior in critical domains such as sex, health, [...]

Finding Ways to Care for Your Parent at Home

For many Americans, placing an aging parent or relative into a nursing home is simply not an option. Adult children feel a responsibility and obligation to provide home care for aging or ailing parents or relatives. In addition to working a full-time or part-time job and caring for their own children, these adult children caregivers [...]

The Marriage Index

Who knew?  There is an official U.S. Marriage Index.  And we’re not looking so good.  A project of the Institute for American Values, the Marriage Index is an effort to quantify the health of marriage in the United States in the same way economists use indicators to figure out state of the country’s economy.  The [...]

Single, Black, Successful..and Happy

The Grio recently posted an article on black women and their perceptions of happiness sans husband. What they found? Happiness has many definitions: Today, women account for more than 70 percent of all African-American graduate school students. The Yale study found that at least a third of black women with graduate degrees will not have [...]

Decay of the Black Family

After the outrage of the videotaped beating death of Derrion Albert reached a boiling point we are all looking for answers as to “why.” We’ve all heard the staid and stale excuses and solutions that we can recite in our sleep. We need more police. An increased presence with no clear direction can aggravate an [...]

Children are Priceless, Raising Them Is Not

Time Magazine reports on a recent birth rate study detailing a 2 percent drop in 2008 of  U.S. birth rates, apparently the biggest drop in four decades.  Why?  Kids aren’t cheap and the economy has proven to be an effective contraceptive. Nancy Gibbs at Time reports: …a typical family will spend about $221,000 raising a [...]

What’s Deductible? Summertime Child Care Expenses

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently provided guidance to taxpayers on the use of the Child and Dependent Care Creditand deductibility of child care expenses during summer.  The Good News: The cost of day camp can count as an expense towards the child and dependent care credit. If your childcare provider is a sitter at [...]

Tracing our Family History and African Ancestry

President and First Lady Obama’s recent trip to Ghana magnified our collective African ancestry. Visiting the Door of No Return, President Obama remarked on the stirring emotion created in the stark contrasts of then and now. Shortly thereafter, the revolting news of grave robbers raiding Chicago’s historic Burr Oak Cemetery and the initial belief of a [...]

Sad State of Marriage

As someone who eventually wants to get married, the constant barrage of infidelity news is depressing. Politicians risk their careers for simple dalliances with their own staffers, random chicks from Argentina, and strange women filming “documentaries.”   They have such disregard for their wives that they have unprotected sex with their mistresses, and in some instances [...]

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