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Faith and Family: African-American Families

In recent years, there’s been a dramatic growth in the black middle class. But poor black families endure huge problems — high rates of divorce, single parents, and out-of-wedlock births. At the same time, African-American women are very religious. Why are so many poor African-American families in trouble, and what are their churches doing to help?

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