RESEARCH PROPOSAL

Aggression Levels of Males from African American

Abstract

This study critically provides a review on the absence of African American and opens way for investigations on how the levels of aggression of African American males are affected by the absence of father when growing up. There exists a gap in the extant theoretical studies as they have not sufficiently addressed this specific aspect of life among the male gender. The theories have touch on how other factors have been affected by the absence of fathers but not touched on the aggression levels of the male in regard to their fathers’ absence. Here, the researcher intends to review all the empirical studies and give the direction as well as the recommendations.

Introduction

Among the African American society, there has been a rampant growth of female headed families where most families are being brought up by single parent that is the mother. This means that the resultant children face the challenge of getting the appropriate role models and most of them end up getting unsuitable role models. These purported role model men may be engaged in outlawed behaviour (Pearson, 2018). There has been complete negligence of the support and advisership by traditional homes which has also made the youth to reject it. The absence of a suitable father has in most cases be attached the reason why majority of the affected youth have juvenile- delinquent behaviour, drug abuse among others.

Statement of the Problem

This study will aim at determining how the absence of fathers has affected the aggression levels of African American male children. The researcher will also try to find out the correlation between the level of aggression of male children and the absence of their farther during upbringing. In the past, there have been cases of fathers not taking part in the lives of their children and this has been very common among the African American society (Johnson, 2017). The children are therefore left to make their own choice of lifestyle and these choices are well manifested during their adolescent stage.

Hypothesis

The researcher will base his study on the following hypothesis t; the aggression levels of African American males that emanate from female headed families are higher than those who steam from families headed by both parents. Additionally, a child who hails from a family headed by the father alone has extremely high aggression levels compared to the one emanating from a family headed by the mother alone and the aggression levels of African male children from families headed by father are higher compare to the one of those from families headed by both parents.

Methodology

The researcher will use both primary sources and secondary sources to accomplish his study. He will pick one male African American child from who is growing from a single parent family where the father is not there. The will observe this child perceives this as well as how aggressive he is and then draw his conclusions. Moreover, the researcher will pick another African American male child hailing from a single parented family where the mother is not there. He will also observe his trait that is how he perceives aspects of life and also how aggressive he is and draw his findings. Lastly, the researcher will pick a child from a family headed by both parent, observe his perception about life as well as his aggressiveness towards life issues and make his conclusions.

Significance of the study

The main objective of this study will be to establish how father’s absence effects on the lifestyle and aggressiveness of African American male children. There exists several studies done on this matter and ruled out the benefits that accrue to a family as a result of the fathers presence that is there if very strong positive correlation between the father’s presence and the children’s well-being (Murphy, 2017).

Assumptions

In this study, the researcher will make an assumption that the literature review that he will be relying on at some point in his research work was accurately reported.

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