Cross Christina, Fomby Paula, Letiecq Bethany L
Harvard University.
University of Colorado.
J Fam Theory Rev. 2022 Sep;14(3):482-501. doi: 10.1111/jftr.12458. Epub 2022 May 14.
In the field of family science and in the broader family policy discourse, debate is ongoing about the importance of family structure for child outcomes. Missing from this debate is a full integration of how the foundational pillars of White supremacy, namely structural racism and heteropatriarchy, impact both family formation and child outcomes, especially among diversely configured Black families. From a critical intersectional lens, we argue that conceptual models used to explain racialized child outcomes based on family structure effects are problematic because they compare family structure statuses without accounting for structural racism and interlinked heteropatriarchal conditions. We present a new conceptual model that integrates structural racism and heteropatriarchy to examine the salience of family structure statuses for child outcomes and discuss approaches to research design, empirical measurement, and interpretation in order to bring this new model into practice.
在家庭科学领域以及更广泛的家庭政策讨论中，关于家庭结构对儿童成长结果的重要性的争论仍在继续。这场辩论中缺失的是对白人至上主义的基本支柱，即结构性种族主义和异性家长制，如何影响家庭形成和儿童成长结果的全面整合，尤其是在结构多样的黑人家庭中。从批判性交叉视角来看，我们认为，用于解释基于家庭结构效应的种族化儿童成长结果的概念模型存在问题，因为它们在比较家庭结构状况时没有考虑结构性种族主义和相互关联的异性家长制条件。我们提出了一个新的概念模型，该模型整合了结构性种族主义和异性家长制，以检验家庭结构状况对儿童成长结果的显著性，并讨论研究设计、实证测量和解释方法，以便将这个新模型付诸实践。
