Books written by Maria Kefalas

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  Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage

  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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  Working-Class Heroes: Protecting Home, Community, and Nation in a Chicago Neighborhood

  This book paints a nuanced and complex portrait of the firefighters, police officers, stay-at-home mothers, and office workers living in the stable working-class community known as Beltway.

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  Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage, With a New Preface

  Over a span of five years, [the authors] talked in-depth with 162 low-income single moms ... to learn how they think about marriage and family. [This book] offers an intimate look at what marriage and motherhood mean to these women and ...

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  Coming of Age in America: The Transition to Adulthood in the Twenty-First Century

  This book takes us to four very different places—New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota—to explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across the country.

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  Fixing Genes and Treating Disease: A Book About Gene Therapy

  This book is for families, patients, medical professionals and the patient advocacy community. It discusses the history and science of gene therapy in a manner young children can understand.

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  Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage

  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 ...

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  Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and what it Means for America

  What surprised them most was that adults in the community were playing a pivotal part in the townrs"s decline by pushing the best and brightest young people to leave. From the Trade Paperback edition.