Promises I Can Keep
Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage
Ethnic Studies - General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
Pennsylvania
Single parents
Women's Studies - General
Poor, united states
Unmarried mothers
Gender Studies
Sociology - General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Single mothers
Poverty
Sociology
SOCIAL SCIENCE
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 the…
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