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Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas
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Kathryn Edin (Author), Maria Kefalas (Author), Frank Furstenberg (Foreword by). Called, Promises I Can Keep, Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage, it interviewed many women who had chosen to have babies years before being willing to make a marriage commitment. This book is based on a study about why poor women keep having kids they can't afford. I heard about it from Lauren, who wrote a long post about the book by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas. Said Maria Kefalas, an associate professor of sociology at St. Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage, With a New Preface. It," says Maria Kefalas, a sociologist who studies marriage and family issues and co-authored a seminal book on low-income mothers called Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage. Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Adults a sense of purpose and meaning in their often chaotic lives, according to sociologists Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas, authors of the bookPromises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage. A little over a month ago, I picked up a copy of Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage. "Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage" Overview. Drawing on years of fieldwork, Doing the Best I Can shows how mammoth economic and cultural changes have transformed the meaning of fatherhood among the urban poor. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage, With a New Preface.