Promises I Can Keep
Subtitle: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage
By: Kathryn Edin + Maria Kefalas ; with a new foreword by Frank F. Furstenberg.
Contributors: Kefalas, Maria.
Edition: 1st edition as paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley, California, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780520248199
Subjects: Unmarried mothers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.; Poor single mothers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: “Before We Had a Baby…”
pagenum: 27; label: 2
title: “When I Got Pregnant…”
pagenum: 50; label: 3
title: How Does the Dream Die?
pagenum: 71; label: 4
title: What Marriage Means
pagenum: 104; label: 5
title: Labor of Love
pagenum: 138; label: 6
title: How Motherhood Changed My Life
pagenum: 168; label: Conclusion
title: Making Sense of Single Motherhood
pagenum: 187; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 221; label: Appendix A
title: City, Neighborhood, and Family Characteristics and Research Methods
pagenum: 225; label: Appendix B
title: Interview Guide
pagenum: 241; title: Notes
pagenum: 249; title: Reference
pagenum: 269; title: Index
pagenum: 287