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Why poor women put motherhood before marriage 2nd revised edition by edin, kathryn, kefalas, maria isbn. Promises i can keep millie acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Mar 01, 2016 this video is about promises i can keep. In the metaphor that became the title of their book, promises i can keep, the authors argued that women avoid marriage because they are not sure they can keep the sacred promise to remain with their husbands until death, whereas they are sure they can meet their obligations to care for their children. Promises i can keep by kathryn edin and maria kefalas id had this book recommended to me by a number of people over the years, as it crops up frequently in discussions of unmarried teenearly twenties pregnancy. Promises i can keep chronicles the lives of 162 lowincome women at the turn of the twentyfirst century. Itll make you squirm, and thats a good thing, especially since edin and kefalas try to make sense of the biggest demographic shift in the last half century. Over a span of five years, sociologists kathryn edin and maria kefalas talked indepth with 162 lowincome single moms like millie to learn how they think about marriage and family. How l ow income single mothers survive welfare and lowwage work with laura lein, 1997. Socalled single mothers, theyve all had children outside of a marital bond. Promises i can keep offers an intimate look at what marriage and motherhood mean to these women and provides the most extensive ontheground study to date of why they put children before marriage despite the daunting challenges they know lie ahead. Why poor women put motherhood before marriage ebook written by kathryn edin, maria kefalas. Edin, an associate professor of sociology at the university of pennsylvania, and kefalas, an assistant professor of sociology.
Why poor women put motherhood before marriage kathryn edin, maria kefalas millie acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Although considerable research has been devoted to understanding the dramatic increase in non. Kathryn edin and maria kefalas, promises i can keep. With the welfare reforms of 1996, the us government asserted its desire to increase the number of twoparent fami. She is the author of workingclass heroes california, 2003. This is a must read for anyone interested in the tangled intersection of family and public. Why poor women put motherhood before marriage, kathryn edin and maria kefalas explore the many complexities of why poor white, puerto rican and african american women choose to have children before marriage.
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