Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27; she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her children be better off if she had waited to have them and had married their father first? Why do so many poor American youth like Millie continue to have children before they can afford to take care of them?Over a span of five years; sociologists Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas talked in-depth with 162 low-income single moms like Millie to learn how they think about marriage and family. Promises I Can Keep offers an intimate look at what marriage and motherhood mean to these women and provides the most extensive on-the-ground study to date of why they put children before marriage despite the daunting challenges they know lie ahead.
#2329844 in Books Hernandez Leon Ruben 2008-09-02 2008-09-02Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x .63 x 6.00l; .81 #File Name: 0520256743272 pagesMetropolitan Migrants The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The Migration IndustryBy IvanHernandez-Leon explains how heavily-traveled transportation linkages between Mexico and the US turned into a migration industry. A migration industry normally arises in the course of cumulative causation; and additionally propels the migration it serves. One might call it a facilitator of migration. This is an important book on immigration processes by a leading social scientist.
