With his idea of "benign neglect" the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan stirred up the black academic community.Moynihan 's "father absence" hypothesis as contributive to a perceived social decay in the black family was counteracted by black social and behavioral scientist who demonstrated that there is an Afrocentric extended family network that ensure black family survival. So the Eurocentric family structure may not apply to blacks. MIchael Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida
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