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Promises I Can Keep

Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage

by Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas

2006 298 pages eng

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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