Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas
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Edin, Kathryn, and Maria Kefalas. A recent eye-opening study put numbers to an issue that I have written about repeatedly: One in five of all American mothers have children from different men. I heard about it from Lauren, who wrote a long post about the book by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas. Berkeley: University of California, 2005. At Harvard, provides perhaps the best exploration of the relationship between poverty and single motherhood in Promises I Can Keep, her book on the myriad reasons that poor women put motherhood before marriage. There's an excellent new sociology text out on this topic: Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage, by Edin and Kafalas. To wit: In Promises I Can Keep, Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas outline “why poor women put motherhood before marriage.” In short, it is because that is all they know. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage. Lisa says: November 7, 2007 at 8:17 am. Either she picks shitty men or she's a shitty woman who can't identify or keep a good man. Says Maria Kefalas, co-author of “Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage.” The book is based on interviews with 162 low-income single mothers. A little over a month ago, I picked up a copy of Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage. €Unintended Pregnancy Rates at the State Level. So if she hasn't found AND MARRIED such a man by the time she's 28, something is very wrong. Here you can find where to get Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage - , Maria Kefalas download.