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

Why read it

• You will learn to ask why before judging a choice you think is a mistake
• You will see why arguing that people are making a mistake does little for their children
• You will understand how women in low income neighborhoods think about marriage and motherhood, in their own words

Who it is for

• A policymaker designing programs for low income families
• A social worker or teacher who meets young mothers every day
• Someone with firm views on single mothers who has never asked one

Contents

1. PREFACE TO THE 2011 EDITION
2. INTRODUCTION
3. ONE
4. “BEFORE WE HAD A BABY . . .
5. TWO
6. “WHEN I GOT PREGNANT . . .”
7. THREE
8. HOW DOES THE DREAM DIE?
9. FOUR
10. WHAT MARRIAGE MEANS
11. FIVE
12. LABOR OF LOVE
13. SIX
14. HOW MOTHERHOOD CHANGED MY LIFE
15. CONCLUSION: MAKING SENSE OF SINGLE MOTHERHOOD
16. APPENDIX A
17. CITY, NEIGHBORHOOD, AND FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS AND RESEARCH METHODS
18. APPENDIX B
19. INTERVIEW GUIDE

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