This sense of personal rights among the African American women impairs their couple relationships. Most of the women get tired of the inequalities such as economic inequalities hence become independent to cope with such persistent inequality which often strains the black’s relationships. Most men are not committed to family life, neither are they able to maintain stable employments. Also, there are concerns of desertion, infidelity experiences and financial irresponsibility that reduces women’s desire to enter long-term unions such as marriages. As such, majority of black women fail to enter marriage institutions for fear of experiencing these above mentioned challenges.
Marriage opportunities for black women is as a result of the contemporary experiences of discrimination and racism. The American system has disadvantaged black community severely that marrying another black person legally makes the situation worse for an individual. In the black community there is
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Also, light skin predicts higher spousal status for African American women but not for Mexican women. The analysis focuses on income, and spousal status life changes to demonstrate the wide impact that discrimination against women of color still have in African American and Mexican American communities, and shows that lighter skinned women are more privileged than darker skinned women, in a sense that the lighter skinned women received annual high earnings and would be more likey to marry high status men than darker skinned women. In summary, it seems that skin color affect maor life outcomes for both African American and Mexican American women, in which ight skin bestows privileges in education and income for both groups and even higher spousal status for African American