Promises I Can Keep : Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage Paperback - 2007
by Kathryn Edin; Maria J. Kefalas
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The authors provide a wholly new framework for understanding why poor women have lower rates of marriage and have children outside of wedlock.
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- Title Promises I Can Keep : Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
- Author Kathryn Edin; Maria J. Kefalas
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd Revised edit
- Condition New
- Pages 316
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, U.S.A.
- Date 2007
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0520248198I2N00
- ISBN 9780520248199 / 0520248198
- Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.72 x 5.8 x 0.78 in (22.15 x 14.73 x 1.98 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Unmarried mothers - Pennsylvania -, Low-income single mothers - Pennsylvania -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005056896
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.874
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"This is the most important study ever written on motherhood and marriage among low-income urban women. Edin and Kefalas's timely, engaging, and well-written book is a careful ethnographic study that paints an indelible portrait of family life in poor communities and, in the process, provides incredible insights on the explosion of mother-only families within these communities."--William Julius Wilson, author of "The Bridge Over the Racial Divide
"This book provides the most insightful and comprehensive account I have read of the reasons why many low-income women postpone marriage but don't postpone childbearing. Edin and Kefalas do an excellent job of illuminating the changing meaning of marriage in American society."--Andrew Cherlin, author of "Public and Private Families
"Edin and Kefalas provide an original and convincing argument for why low-income women continue to embrace motherhood while postponing and raising the bar on marriage. This book is a must read for students of the family as well as for policy makers and practitioners who hope to rebuild marriage in low-income communities."--Sara McLanahan, author of "Growing Up with a Single Parent
""Promises I Can Keep is the best kind of exploration: honest, incisive and ever-so-original. It'll make you squirm, and that's a good thing, especially since Edin and Kefalas try to make sense of the biggest demographic shift in the last half century. This is a must read for anyone interested in the tangled intersection of family and public policy."--Alex Kotlowitz, author of "There Are No Children Here
"This book provides the most insightful and comprehensive account I have read of the reasons why many low-income women postpone marriage but don't postpone childbearing. Edin and Kefalas do an excellent job of illuminating the changing meaning of marriage in American society."--Andrew Cherlin, author of "Public and Private Families
"Edin and Kefalas provide an original and convincing argument for why low-income women continue to embrace motherhood while postponing and raising the bar on marriage. This book is a must read for students of the family as well as for policy makers and practitioners who hope to rebuild marriage in low-income communities."--Sara McLanahan, author of "Growing Up with a Single Parent
""Promises I Can Keep is the best kind of exploration: honest, incisive and ever-so-original. It'll make you squirm, and that's a good thing, especially since Edin and Kefalas try to make sense of the biggest demographic shift in the last half century. This is a must read for anyone interested in the tangled intersection of family and public policy."--Alex Kotlowitz, author of "There Are No Children Here
