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Dr. Green. Dr. Evans taught a weekly course on mental hygiene and also taught a weekly course to expectant mothers and fathers. There was also a Kindergarden Department.

In traditional Afrikan culture, all girls are socialized from birth to become good mothers and wives (just as boys are socialized to become good fathers and husbands). If a woman was unable to become pregnant, the culture dictated that she was still a mother in the eyes of the community. All the children of a community were considered to be the children of all the adults of the community and could be rewarded and punished as was felt justified. Also, many women who were unable to become pregnant were given children by relatives and close friends to rear so that they could indeed know the joys of parenthood. In general, the above cultural practices explain why the incidences of male and female homosexuality as well as child abuse and molestation were virtually unknown in ancient and traditional Afrika.

In America, these cultural norms were also practiced by kidnapped, displaced, enslaved, and oppressed Afrikans who had been made to forget the origin of the practice. In this matter also, Dr. Evans was a mother. Upon the deaths of her siblings, she took their small children to raise. According to her neice, Mrs. Jessie Trottie Hill, whom she raised, Dr. Evans raised a total of 11 children, several of whom were children of her patients. Because of her heavy schedule, she employed a house lady to help with the children. They all got along like brothers and sisters and all had the opportunity to get a college education. She traveled as much as she could and would take all her children with her on trips such as the National Medical Association national meetings.

All the children and some others of their friends were given music lessons. Dr. Evans, herself, played the piano and on Sunday afternoons they would have their own music concerts that would include not just the household but neighbors as well.

[[highlighted]] (She owned and operated a twenty acre farm, Lindenwood Farm,) which was located off Two Notch Road near where Beltline [[highlighted]] (Boulevard) is now located. She raised chickens, cows, ducks, hogs, pigeons, vegetables and fruit trees. The food from this farm helped 
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