Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage Paperback - 2011
by Kathryn Edin; Maria Kefalas; Foreword by Frank Furstenberg
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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- Title Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
- Author Kathryn Edin; Maria Kefalas; Foreword by Frank Furstenberg
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: third
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press
- Date 2011-10-04
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520271463 / 0520271467
- Weight 0.96 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 9.05 x 6.07 x 0.74 in (22.99 x 15.42 x 1.88 cm)
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Themes
- Geographic Orientation: Pennsylvania
- Locality: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005056896
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.856
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