This article's main objective is to talk about socially mobile adolescents' family

experiences in underprivileged African American areas. These data outline and characterize a
variety of family tactics that protect teenagers from the dangers of growing up in poverty, based
on an analysis of prior qualitative research. These findings go beyond quantitative research that
restrict their analysis to a select few parenting practices. The article's secondary objective is to
inform youth-serving programs with the qualitative findings. Based on the actual experiences of
families and their kids, these kinds of programs can make the most of qualitative data in order to
optimize favorable developmental outcomes for low-income African American students.
Program ideas are put out that show how academic research might be put to practical use. This
review concentrated on conventional aspects of social mobility. Poor African Americans,
although often participating in unconventional behaviors, define "getting ahead" in mainstream
terms. Like other Americans, poor African American parents aspire that their children will
complete high school, if not college, get a good job, become financially independent, and bear
children within the context of a stable marriage. The conventional pattern exists with other
"survival" patterns that assess what is real and possible in some family's lives (see Jarrett,
1994; Rainwater, 1970; Stack, 1974). Noblit and Hare (1988) provide a detailed discussion of
synthesizing qualitative studies. Parental concerns about their child's growth were brought to
light by comparing studies of children and adolescents. Family tactics that protected kids and
teenagers from hazards in the area were typically easier to implement in childhood than in
adolescence. Adolescence required more parenting because of the increased independence
from the home and exposure to other influences. Comparing qualitative research from various
eras revealed consideration for shifting social and economic circumstances that impacted
various family cohorts. While family methods have not changed over the years, more recent
research indicates that economic and social situations have certainly been worse in comparison
to previous decades, which is consistent with objective indicators. Whether or not these tactics
work as well in the current social and economic environment is an empirical question. The listed
familial traits are not imagined. Anderson, E. (1989). Sex codes and family life among inner-city
youths. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 501, 59-78.