Kathryn Edin

Promises I Can Keep

Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage

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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 C… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Kefalas, Maria

ISBN: 978-0-520-95068-9
EAN: 9780520950689
Produktnummer: 21596035
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 308 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'673 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Kathryn Edin is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and coauthor of Making Ends Meet (1997). Maria Kefalas is Professor of Sociology at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. She is the author of Working-Class Heroes (California, 2003).