August 30, 2006 at 12:00 am #27933
Alexandra Castle
Participant
Not to bring too much scientific data into it. It is true that black parents spend more time on practical child maintenance rather than reading, encouraging ‘happiness’ (whatever that is), etc., because they are frequently working 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet. It isn’t the ethnicity – you find the same thing in other races that are in the same situation – but economic necessity. They don’t have money to spend on paper diapers and time to spend on washing cloth ones all the time.