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Promises I Can Keep : Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
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Promises I Can Keep : Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage Hardcover - 2005 - 1st Edition

by Edin, Kathryn, Kefalas, Maria

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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 Edin, Kathryn, Kefalas, Maria
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 316
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, U.S.A.
  • Date March 8, 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 612223-6
  • ISBN 9780520241138 / 0520241134
  • Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.32 x 1.14 in (23.37 x 16.05 x 2.90 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Geographic Orientation: Pennsylvania
    • Locality: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Unmarried mothers - Pennsylvania -, Low-income single mothers - Pennsylvania -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004022032
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.856

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First line

Antonia Rodriguez and her boyfriend Emilio, a young Puerto Rican couple, live in Philadelphia's West Kensington section, colloquially dubbed "the Badlands" because of all the drug activity and violence there.

From the rear cover

"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

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Citations

  • Ingram Advance, 04/01/2005, Page 135
  • Ingram PTR, 06/01/2005, Page 64
  • Library Journal, 02/01/2005, Page 105

About the author

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

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