Promises I Can Keep
Subtitle: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 8, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780520241138
Subjects: Single parents; Unmarried mothers; Poor single mothers; Gender Studies; Social Science; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Sociology; USA; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Ethnic Studies - General; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Sociology - General; Low-income single mothers; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia
First sentence: Antonia Rodriguez and her boyfriend Emilio, a young Puerto Rican couple, live in Philadelphia's West Kensington section, colloquially dubbed "the Badlands" because of all the drug activity and violence there.