Promises I Can Keep
Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage
by Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas · first published 2005
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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 have them and had married their father first? Why do so many poor American youth like Millie continue to have children before they can afford to take care of 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 learn h
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…but they're mostly a minority pursuit. The below quotation gives a flavour of what it's like for the Irish non working class, living in or applying for social housing. From what I've read of the book Promises I Can Keep and Charles Murray's Coming Apart it's pretty close to the situation in the US non working class, with the no college working class trending that way. == I don’t care if you break up with your significant…
on “Love People, Not Pleasure” ↗…question. As it turns out, lots of women will readily have kids with those men. Along with the growth of single-man household, we observe growth of single never married women with children. See for example "Promises I Can Keep" (https://www.amazon.com/Promises-Can-Keep-Motherhood-Marriage...) and "Doing the Best I Can" (https://www.amazon.com/Doing-Best-Can-Fatherhood-Inner/dp/05...) for some sociological view of realities…
on “Education and Men without Work” ↗> From what I understood motherhood is a status symbol, also a right of passage. _Promises I Can Keep_ is a good book on this topic.
on “New New Fatherhood in the Inner City” ↗