Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
- ISBN-10
- 0520241134
- ISBN-13
- 9780520241138
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 293
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-03-08
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Authors
- Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas
Description
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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- 2011-10-04
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- 2011-09
- 293 pages
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