🖤 It’s Black Family Month — Let’s Talk About It! 🖤
- M. Ariel Love Foundation
- Jul 14
- 2 min read
As a Black woman, the significance of Black Family Month runs deep in my heart. The Black family has always been a pillar of resilience, culture, love, and legacy, even in the face of systems designed to break us. A solid family life is fertile ground for raising healthy, self-assured children who grow into the future leaders, teachers, healers, and protectors of our communities.
But here’s the truth…
📉 The statistics are staggering:
Nearly 65% of Black children live in single-parent homes.
Black families are disproportionately affected by poverty, incarceration, and housing insecurity.
Black youth are more likely to be suspended from school or placed in special education due to behavioral challenges rooted in untreated trauma.
Suicide rates for Black youth have risen faster than any other racial or ethnic group in recent years.
What does that tell us? We’re hurting.
When trauma goes unaddressed in our families, it shows up in our homes through tension, mistrust, silence, and cycles of dysfunction. It spills into our schools through behavioral outbursts, disengagement, and misunderstood cries for help. And it floods society through violence, depression, and emotional numbness — all symptoms of pain that has nowhere else to go.
And like a broken bone that never heals properly, trauma that is ignored or covered up becomes deformed by silence, passed down from generation to generation. Bones that don't heal correctly remain fragile, vulnerable, and susceptible to reinjury. And so do we.
It’s time to talk. To heal. To break the silence. Change starts with you.
Don’t underestimate the power of honest conversations around the dinner table. Create space for vulnerability. Ask your children how they’re really feeling. Discuss what healing could look like ... not just surviving but thriving together.
And let’s not forget, it’s also Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. Therapy is a powerful starting point. You don’t have to carry it all alone. Seeking help is not weakness, it’s wisdom.
💜 A strong Black family doesn’t mean a perfect one; it means a growing one. A healing one... A united one.
Let’s continue to show up for our families, for ourselves, and for the generations to come. ✊🏾
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