I kept reading and waiting to hear how how all of these finding concerning Black families differ in any way from families of other racial groups. I have no background in the social sciences but it seems pretty obvious that you start with a study of all families from all backgrounds. This certainly provides a lot of information relevant to all families. It also sets a baseline that specific groups can be compared to. Without a baseline to compare, what is the point of the study anyway?

It could be argued that the readers of this article might only care about the issue as it pertains to Black people. The actual study may have covered the comparisons but whoever wrote the article didn’t think the readers were interested in the subject except to the extent that it effected Black people. That would seem to assume a deficit of critical thinking on the part of the reader. I wonder if the comparison was omitted deliberately to create the impression that this was a problem unique to Black mothers.