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Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage by Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas

Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas ebook
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Page: 300
ISBN: 0520241134, 9780520241138

Says Maria Kefalas, co-author of “Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage.” The book is based on interviews with 162 low-income single mothers. 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. So if she hasn't found AND MARRIED such a man by the time she's 28, something is very wrong. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage, With a New Preface. But fewer than one in seven has done so by the time their kids turn 3, according to sociologists Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas, authors of the book “Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage. Why do so many poor American youth like Millie continue to have children before they can afford to take care of them? Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage, With a New Preface. Edin, Kathryn, 1962- Promises I can keep: why poor women put motherhood before marriage. Over a span of five years, to learn how they think about marriage and family. Either she picks shitty men or she's a shitty woman who can't identify or keep a good man. Unmarried mothers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. Got all het up over marriages as legal carrots that get walled off by the government, and then those very structures are ignored when they want to pathologize women (in this case, single mothers and non-married [read: subdued] women over 30). Said Maria Kefalas, an associate professor of sociology at St. For us, the wedding part is in fact the important part, and we would not likely get married until we could afford to do so with all of the far-flung friends and family we would want there, which will be expensive to pull off with or . To wit: In Promises I Can Keep, Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas outline “why poor women put motherhood before marriage.” In short, it is because that is all they know. Kathryn Edin (Author), Maria Kefalas (Author), Frank Furstenberg (Foreword by). It," says Maria Kefalas, a sociologist who studies marriage and family issues and co-authored a seminal book on low-income mothers called Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage.