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A major consequence of the Moynihan Report was to focus on black conjugal patterns a degree of attention that had simply not been there before. Besides detailed census analyses there appeared a variety of publications by independent investigators (Liebow, 1967; Billingsley, 1968; Rainwater, 1970; Willie, 1970; Scanzoni, 1971; Staples, 1971). Out of the numerous issues raised by this rapidly expanding literature, we wish to focus on only two interrelated questions. One has to do with the structures of sex roles; the other has to do with the conditions which promote or hinder marital satisfaction. Both issues will be examined in and results compared for black and white marriages.
John Scanzoni (Sat,) studied this question.