Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her children be better off if she had waited to have them and had married their father first? Why do so many poor American youth like Millie continue to have children before they can afford to take care of them?
Over a span of five years, sociologists Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas talked in-depth with 162 low-income single moms like Millie to learn how they think about marriage and family. 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.
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Promises I Can Keep
Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage
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Publisher
University of California PressYear
2011Print ISBN
9780520271463
Edition
1eBook ISBN
9780520950689
xii
PREFACE
TO
THE
2011
EDITION
2
.
This
figure
excludes
mothers
living
solo
but
with
children
from
multiple
partners—such
mothers
are
included
in
the
78
percent
who
experience
either
instability
or
complexity.
3
.
This
figure
doesn’t
include
discouraged
workers.
4
.
The
figure
for
white
college
graduates
was
just
2
percent,
both
then
and
now.
Bradford
Wilcox,
2010
,
When
Marriage
Disappears:
The
New
Middle
America.
University
of
Virginia:
Institute
for
American
Values,
National
Marriage
Project.
5
.
See
McLanahan
(
2011
);
Kiernan
et
al.
(
2011
).
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface to the 2011 Edition
- Introduction
- I. "Before We Had a Baby..."
- 2. "When I Got Pregnant..."
- 3. How Does the Dream Die?
- 4. What Marriage Means
- 5. Labor of Love
- 6. How Motherhood Changed My Life
- Conclusion: Making Sense of Single Motherhood
- Acknowledgments
- APPENDIX A: City, Neighborhood, and Family Characteristics and Research Methods
- APPENDIX B: Interview Guide
- Notes
- References
- Index
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