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Boyd-Franklin, N. (2003). Race, class, and poverty. In F. Walsh, (Ed), Normal family processes: Growing diversity and complexity, 3rd ed, (pp. 260-279).
New York: Guilford Press.
Boyd-Franklin, N. (2000). Black families in therapy, 2nd ed, (pp. 52-72). New York: Guilford Press.
Bradley, G. V. (2004). Law and the culture of marriage. Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, & Public Policy, 18, 189-217.
Broman, C. L. (1993). Race differences in marital well-being. Journal of Marriage and Family, 55, 3, 724-732.
Briman, C. L. (2005). Marital quality in Black and White marriages. Journal of Family Issues, 26, 4, 431-441.
Bryant, C.M, Wickrama, K.A.S., Bolland, J., Bryant, B. M., Cutrona, C. E., & Stanik, C. E. (2010). Race Matters, even in marriage: Identifying factors linked to marital outcomes for African Americans. Journal of Family Theory & Review. 2, 157-174.
Caspi, A., Herbener, E., & Ozer, D. (1992). Shared experiences and the similarity of personalities: A longitudinal study of married couples. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 62, (2), 281–291.
Chambers, A. L., & Kravitz, A. (2011). Understanding the disproportionately low marriage rate among African Americans: An amalgam of sociological and psychological constraints. Family Relations, 60(5), 648-660.
Chaney, C. (2016). “No matter what, good or bad, love is still there”: Motivations for romantic commitment among black cohabitating couples. Marriage and Family Review, 50, 3, 216-245.
Chaney, C., & Fairfax, C. N. (2013). The Obamas and the culture of black parenting in America. Journal of Pan African Studies, 5(10), 20-50.
Demo, D. H., & Ganong, L. H. (1994). Divorce. Families and change: Coping with stressful events, 197-218.
Dew, J., Britt, S., & Huston, S. (2012). Examining the relationship between financial issues and divorce. Family Relations, 61(4), 615-628.
Dupree, W., White, M., Olsen, C., & Lafleur, C. (2007). Infidelity treatment patterns: a practice-based evidence approach. American Journal and Family Therapy. 35(4), 327-341.
Durodoye, B. A., & Coker, A. D. (2008). Crossing cultures in marriage: Implications for counseling African American/African couples. International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 30(1), 25-37.
Edwards, L. F. (1996). “The marriage covenant is at the foundation of all our rights”: The politics of slave marriages in North Carolina after emancipation. Law and History Review, 14(01), 81-124.
Ellison, C., Burdette, A., & Wilcox, W.B. (2010). The couple that prays together: Race and ethnicity, religion, and relationship quality among working-age adults. Journal of Marriage and Family 72, (4), 963-975
Fincham, F. D., & Beach, S. R. (2010). Marriage in the new millennium: A decade in review. Journal of Marriage and Family, 72(3), 630-649.
Fischer, J. L., Sollie, D. L., Sorell, G. T., & Green, S. K. (1989). Marital status and career stage influences on social networks of young adults.
Journal of Marriage and the Family, 521-534.
Franke, K. M. (1999). Becoming a citizen: Reconstruction era regulation of African American marriages. Yale JL & Human., 11, 251.
Gordon, K. C., Baucom, D. H., & Snyder, D. K. (2005). Forgiveness in couples: Divorce, infidelity, and couples therapy. Handbook of forgiveness, 407-421.
Gottman, J.M., & Levenson, R.W. (2000). The timing of divorce: predicting when a couple will divorce over a 14-year period. Journal of Marriage and Family. 62(3), 737-745.
Gottman, J.M. (2011). The science of trust. New York: W.W. Norton & co.
Green, K. M., Doherty, E. E., Fothergill, K. E., & Ensminger, M. E. (2012). Marriage trajectories and health risk behaviors throughout adulthood among urban African Americans. Journal of family issues, 1595-1618.
Hartnett, K., & Blow, A.J. (2005). Infidelity in committed relationships | a methodological review. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, vol. 31, issue 2, p. 183.
Horwitz, B.N., Reynolds, C.A., Walum, H. et al. (2016). Understanding the role of mate selection processes in couples’ pair bonding behavior. Behavior Genetics. 46: 143-149.
Jackl, J. A. (2016). “Love doesn’t just happen…”: Parent-child communication about marriage. Communication Quarterly, 64(2), 193-209.
Jagesic, S. (2014). Race and relationship advice: Effects of marriage market differences on cultural expectations of behavior. Feminist Media Studies, 14(1), 73-89.
Kia, M. E., Golzari, M., & Sohrabi, F. (2013). The effectiveness of teaching stress-coping strategies to enhance marital satisfaction of women after partners’ extramarital affairs. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 84, 70-75.
Kim, H. S., Sherman, D. K., Ko, D., & Taylor, S. E. (2006). Pursuit of comfort and pursuit of harmony: Culture, relationships, and social support seeking. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32(12), 1595-1607.
Lam, A. G., & Zane, N. W. (2004). Ethnic differences in coping with interpersonal stressors a test of self-construals as cultural mediators.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 35(4), 446-459.
Lindsey, S., Tetrault, S., Desmaris, C., King, G., & Pierart, G. (2014). Social workers as cultural brokers in providing culturally sensitive care to immigrant families raising a child with a physical disability. Health and Social Work, vol. 39, Issue 2, 10-20.
Macauda, M. M., Erickson, P. I., Singer, M. C., & Santelices, C. C. (2011). A cultural model of infidelity among African American and Puerto Rican young adults. Anthropology & medicine, 18(3), 351-364.
Mahoney, A. (2010). Religion in families, 1999–2009: A relational spirituality framework. Journal of Marriage and Family, 72(4), 805-827.
Malone-Colon, L. (2007). Responding to the black marriage crisis. Institute for American Values: Center for Marriage and Families. 6, 1-5.
Manyoni, J. R. (1980). Extra-marital mating patterns in caribbean family studies: A methodological excursus. Anthropologica, 85-118.
McLanahan, S., Donahue, E., & Haskins, R. (2005). Introducing the issue. The Future of Children, 3-12.
Moller, N.P., & Vossler, A. (2015). Defining infidelity in research and couple counseling: A qualitative study. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. 41, (5), 487-497.
Pearce Plauche, H., Marks, L. D., & Hawkins, A. J. (2016). Why we chose to stay together: Qualitative interviews with separated couples who chose to reconcile. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 57(5), 317-337.
Penn, C.D., Hernandez, S.L., and Bermudez, J.M. (1997). Using a cross-cultural perspective to understand infidelity in couples therapy. The American Journal of Family Therapy, 25, 2, 169-185.
Phillips, T. M., Wilmoth, J. D., & Marks, L. D. (2012). Challenges and conflicts...Strengths and supports a study of enduring African American marriages.
Journal of Black Studies, 43(8), 936-952.
Pinderhughes, E. B. (2002). African American marriage in the 20th century. Family Process, 41(2), 269-282.
Simons, R. L., Simons, L. G., Lei, M. K., & Landor, A. M. (2012). Relational schemas, hostile romantic relationships, and beliefs about marriage among young African American adults. Journal of social and personal relationships, 29(1), 77-101.
Singh, N.N., McKay, J.D., Singh, A.N. (1999). The need for cultural brokers in mental health services. Journal of Child and Family Studies. 8(1), 1-10.
Stevenson, B. E. (1997). Life in Black and White: Family and community in the slave south. Oxford University Press
Swidler, A. (1985). Marriage in the world religions. Journal of Ecumenical Studies. 22, (1), 1-119.
Treas, J., & Giesen, D. (2000). Sexual infidelity among married and cohabiting Americans. Journal of Marriage and Family, vol. 62, No. 1, 48-60.
Tucker, M. B., & Mitchell-Kernan, C. (Eds.). (1995). The decline in marriage among African Americans: Causes, consequences, and policy implications. Russell Sage Foundation.
Whisman, M. A., Dixon, A. E., & Johnson, B. (1997). Therapists' perspectives of couple problems and treatment issues in couple therapy.
Journal of Family Psychology,11(3), 361.
Williams, K., Galick, A., Knudson‐Martin, C., & Huenergardt, D. (2013). Toward mutual support: A task analysis of the relational justice approach to infidelity.
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 39(3), 285-298.
Boyd-Franklin, N. (2003). Race, class, and poverty. In F. Walsh, (Ed), Normal family processes: Growing diversity and complexity, 3rd ed, (pp. 260-279).
New York: Guilford Press.
Boyd-Franklin, N. (2000). Black families in therapy, 2nd ed, (pp. 52-72). New York: Guilford Press.
Bradley, G. V. (2004). Law and the culture of marriage. Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, & Public Policy, 18, 189-217.
Broman, C. L. (1993). Race differences in marital well-being. Journal of Marriage and Family, 55, 3, 724-732.
Briman, C. L. (2005). Marital quality in Black and White marriages. Journal of Family Issues, 26, 4, 431-441.
Bryant, C.M, Wickrama, K.A.S., Bolland, J., Bryant, B. M., Cutrona, C. E., & Stanik, C. E. (2010). Race Matters, even in marriage: Identifying factors linked to marital outcomes for African Americans. Journal of Family Theory & Review. 2, 157-174.
Caspi, A., Herbener, E., & Ozer, D. (1992). Shared experiences and the similarity of personalities: A longitudinal study of married couples. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 62, (2), 281–291.
Chambers, A. L., & Kravitz, A. (2011). Understanding the disproportionately low marriage rate among African Americans: An amalgam of sociological and psychological constraints. Family Relations, 60(5), 648-660.
Chaney, C. (2016). “No matter what, good or bad, love is still there”: Motivations for romantic commitment among black cohabitating couples. Marriage and Family Review, 50, 3, 216-245.
Chaney, C., & Fairfax, C. N. (2013). The Obamas and the culture of black parenting in America. Journal of Pan African Studies, 5(10), 20-50.
Demo, D. H., & Ganong, L. H. (1994). Divorce. Families and change: Coping with stressful events, 197-218.
Dew, J., Britt, S., & Huston, S. (2012). Examining the relationship between financial issues and divorce. Family Relations, 61(4), 615-628.
Dupree, W., White, M., Olsen, C., & Lafleur, C. (2007). Infidelity treatment patterns: a practice-based evidence approach. American Journal and Family Therapy. 35(4), 327-341.
Durodoye, B. A., & Coker, A. D. (2008). Crossing cultures in marriage: Implications for counseling African American/African couples. International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 30(1), 25-37.
Edwards, L. F. (1996). “The marriage covenant is at the foundation of all our rights”: The politics of slave marriages in North Carolina after emancipation. Law and History Review, 14(01), 81-124.
Ellison, C., Burdette, A., & Wilcox, W.B. (2010). The couple that prays together: Race and ethnicity, religion, and relationship quality among working-age adults. Journal of Marriage and Family 72, (4), 963-975
Fincham, F. D., & Beach, S. R. (2010). Marriage in the new millennium: A decade in review. Journal of Marriage and Family, 72(3), 630-649.
Fischer, J. L., Sollie, D. L., Sorell, G. T., & Green, S. K. (1989). Marital status and career stage influences on social networks of young adults.
Journal of Marriage and the Family, 521-534.
Franke, K. M. (1999). Becoming a citizen: Reconstruction era regulation of African American marriages. Yale JL & Human., 11, 251.
Gordon, K. C., Baucom, D. H., & Snyder, D. K. (2005). Forgiveness in couples: Divorce, infidelity, and couples therapy. Handbook of forgiveness, 407-421.
Gottman, J.M., & Levenson, R.W. (2000). The timing of divorce: predicting when a couple will divorce over a 14-year period. Journal of Marriage and Family. 62(3), 737-745.
Gottman, J.M. (2011). The science of trust. New York: W.W. Norton & co.
Green, K. M., Doherty, E. E., Fothergill, K. E., & Ensminger, M. E. (2012). Marriage trajectories and health risk behaviors throughout adulthood among urban African Americans. Journal of family issues, 1595-1618.
Hartnett, K., & Blow, A.J. (2005). Infidelity in committed relationships | a methodological review. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, vol. 31, issue 2, p. 183.
Horwitz, B.N., Reynolds, C.A., Walum, H. et al. (2016). Understanding the role of mate selection processes in couples’ pair bonding behavior. Behavior Genetics. 46: 143-149.
Jackl, J. A. (2016). “Love doesn’t just happen…”: Parent-child communication about marriage. Communication Quarterly, 64(2), 193-209.
Jagesic, S. (2014). Race and relationship advice: Effects of marriage market differences on cultural expectations of behavior. Feminist Media Studies, 14(1), 73-89.
Kia, M. E., Golzari, M., & Sohrabi, F. (2013). The effectiveness of teaching stress-coping strategies to enhance marital satisfaction of women after partners’ extramarital affairs. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 84, 70-75.
Kim, H. S., Sherman, D. K., Ko, D., & Taylor, S. E. (2006). Pursuit of comfort and pursuit of harmony: Culture, relationships, and social support seeking. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32(12), 1595-1607.
Lam, A. G., & Zane, N. W. (2004). Ethnic differences in coping with interpersonal stressors a test of self-construals as cultural mediators.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 35(4), 446-459.
Lindsey, S., Tetrault, S., Desmaris, C., King, G., & Pierart, G. (2014). Social workers as cultural brokers in providing culturally sensitive care to immigrant families raising a child with a physical disability. Health and Social Work, vol. 39, Issue 2, 10-20.
Macauda, M. M., Erickson, P. I., Singer, M. C., & Santelices, C. C. (2011). A cultural model of infidelity among African American and Puerto Rican young adults. Anthropology & medicine, 18(3), 351-364.
Mahoney, A. (2010). Religion in families, 1999–2009: A relational spirituality framework. Journal of Marriage and Family, 72(4), 805-827.
Malone-Colon, L. (2007). Responding to the black marriage crisis. Institute for American Values: Center for Marriage and Families. 6, 1-5.
Manyoni, J. R. (1980). Extra-marital mating patterns in caribbean family studies: A methodological excursus. Anthropologica, 85-118.
McLanahan, S., Donahue, E., & Haskins, R. (2005). Introducing the issue. The Future of Children, 3-12.
Moller, N.P., & Vossler, A. (2015). Defining infidelity in research and couple counseling: A qualitative study. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. 41, (5), 487-497.
Pearce Plauche, H., Marks, L. D., & Hawkins, A. J. (2016). Why we chose to stay together: Qualitative interviews with separated couples who chose to reconcile. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 57(5), 317-337.
Penn, C.D., Hernandez, S.L., and Bermudez, J.M. (1997). Using a cross-cultural perspective to understand infidelity in couples therapy. The American Journal of Family Therapy, 25, 2, 169-185.
Phillips, T. M., Wilmoth, J. D., & Marks, L. D. (2012). Challenges and conflicts...Strengths and supports a study of enduring African American marriages.
Journal of Black Studies, 43(8), 936-952.
Pinderhughes, E. B. (2002). African American marriage in the 20th century. Family Process, 41(2), 269-282.
Simons, R. L., Simons, L. G., Lei, M. K., & Landor, A. M. (2012). Relational schemas, hostile romantic relationships, and beliefs about marriage among young African American adults. Journal of social and personal relationships, 29(1), 77-101.
Singh, N.N., McKay, J.D., Singh, A.N. (1999). The need for cultural brokers in mental health services. Journal of Child and Family Studies. 8(1), 1-10.
Stevenson, B. E. (1997). Life in Black and White: Family and community in the slave south. Oxford University Press
Swidler, A. (1985). Marriage in the world religions. Journal of Ecumenical Studies. 22, (1), 1-119.
Treas, J., & Giesen, D. (2000). Sexual infidelity among married and cohabiting Americans. Journal of Marriage and Family, vol. 62, No. 1, 48-60.
Tucker, M. B., & Mitchell-Kernan, C. (Eds.). (1995). The decline in marriage among African Americans: Causes, consequences, and policy implications. Russell Sage Foundation.
Whisman, M. A., Dixon, A. E., & Johnson, B. (1997). Therapists' perspectives of couple problems and treatment issues in couple therapy.
Journal of Family Psychology,11(3), 361.
Williams, K., Galick, A., Knudson‐Martin, C., & Huenergardt, D. (2013). Toward mutual support: A task analysis of the relational justice approach to infidelity.
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 39(3), 285-298.
