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

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Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of highschool to take care of 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 if she had waited to have them and had married their father first? Why do such a lot of poor American youth like Millie continue to have children before they may be able to find the money for to maintain 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 be told how they consider marriage and circle of relatives. 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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