Bibliograph

Promises I can keep, why poor women put motherhood before marriage, Kathryn Edin + Maria Kefalas

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Promises I can keep, why poor women put motherhood before marriage, Kathryn Edin + Maria Kefalas

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-285) and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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mapsillustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Promises I can keep

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

57750836

Responsibility statement

Kathryn Edin + Maria Kefalas

Sub title

why poor women put motherhood before marriage

Summary

Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her children be better off if she had waited to have them and had married their father first? Why do so many poor American youth like Millie continue to have children before they can afford to take care of them? Over a span of five years, sociologists Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas talked in-depth with 162 low-income single moms like Millie to learn how they think about marriage and family. Promises I Can Keep offers an intimate look at what marriage and motherhood mean to these women and provides the most extensive on-the-ground study to date of why they put children before marriage despite the daunting challenges they know lie ahead.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

"Before we had a baby..." -- "When I got pregnant..." -- How does the dream die? -- What marriage means -- Labor of love -- How motherhood changed my life -- Making sense of single motherhood

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