Study findings fill an important gap in the extant literature on racial socialization that assumes these specific parental practices stop once children enter adolescence or young adulthood, when in fact these data suggest parental racial socialization occurs across the life course, with adult children, and may be shaped by interactions between multiple ecological systems. These findings have important implications for the psychological well-being of older Black mothers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
Malcome et al. (Thu,) studied this question.