Title: Unmarried couples with children /
Authors: England, Paula; Edin, Kathryn, 1962-
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Unmarried couples United States.; Unmarried mothers United States; Unmarried fathers United States.; Single parents United States
Abstract: Unmarried Couples with Children presents an intimate portrait of the challenges faced by partnering and parenting with couples who have children without the benefit of marriage.
Contents: Unmarried couples with children : hoping for love and the white picket fence / Paula England and Kathryn Edin -- Forming fragile families : was the baby planned, unplanned, or in between? / Kathryn Edin ... [et al.] -- Everyday gender conflicts in low-income couples / Paula England and Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer -- Expectations and the economic bar to marriage among low-income couples / Christina M. Gibson-Davis -- Steppin' out : infidelity and sexual jealousy among unmarried parents / Heather D. Hill -- Anatomy of the breakup : how and why do unmarried couples with children break up? / Joanna Reed -- #1 father or fathering 101? : couple relationship quality and father involvement when fathers live with their children / Kathryn D. Linnenberg -- Blended but not the Bradys : navigating unmarried multiple partner fertility / Lindsay M. Monte -- Gatekeeper moms and (un)involved dads : what happens after a breakup? / Amy Claessens -- Child support among low-income noncustodial fathers / Katherine A. Magnuson and Christina M. Gibson-Davis -- Mixing methods : reliability and validity across quantitative and qualitative measures of relationship quality / Mimi Engel -- Data from the TLC3 / Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer.