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Promises I Can Keep

Name: Promises I Can Keep
Author: Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas

Kathryn Edin,

Maria Kefalas,

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Promises I Can Keep

Kathryn Edin,

Maria Kefalas,

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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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Publisher

University of California Press

Year

2011

ISBN

9780520950689

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Discrimination & Race Relations

Index

Social Sciences

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

).

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