low-wage marriage unmarried motherhood

books:

Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage

17 reviews
Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas

University of California Press, 2007

Fantastic book about a not-so-fantastic phenomenon
As a social worker who deals with the population portrayed in this book day in and day out, I was very interested in reading a book that I hoped would help me understand a phenomenon that has intrigued me since the day I started my job. I was very pleased when I read this book as I thought that it did address its stated purpose in a factual but still thoughtful way. I enjoyed this book because ...

Promises I Can Keep
Kathryn/ Kefalas, Maria Edin

Univ of California Pr, 2005

Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work

5 reviews
Kathryn Edin, Laura Lein

Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 1997

Throw away all the old data and read this
Excellent statistical and investigative work that predates, but informs, much of the information we will get about the efficacy of welfare reform. Supports of both Charles Murray and Christopher Jencks will find materials in here that support and challenge their views. There are a few methodological problems with this book, however. Because the authors rely on word-of-mouth for their data sample, ...

Unmarried Couples With Children

Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 2007

Welfare to Work: Opportunities and Pitfalls (Issue Series in Social Research and Social Policy)
Gary D. Sandefur, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Kathryn Edin

Amer Sociological Assn, 1998

A volume in the American Sociological Association's Issue Series on Research and Social Policy. The welfare reform legislation of 1996 created wide interest in efforts to move families from welfare to work. This volume in the Series provides information on the prospects for employment opportunities and long-term transition of welfare recipients to jobs. With facts and not conjecture, it addresses the following questions: What do we know ...