Promises I can keep why poor women put motherhood before marriage

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 hav...

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Main Authors:	Edin, Kathryn, Kefalas, Maria
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley University of California Press 2011
Edition:	3rd ed.
Subjects:	Low-income single mothers Pennsylvania Philadelphia Poor single mothers SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology Unmarried mothers
ISBN:	9780520950689, 0520248198, 0520271467, 0520950682, 9780520248199, 9780520271463
Online Access:	Get full text
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