Unmarried Couples with Children Paula England and Kathryn Edin, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edin, Kathryn, 1962-

England, Paula.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Single parents--United States.

Single parents.

Unmarried fathers--United States.

Unmarried fathers.

Unmarried mothers--United States.

Unmarried mothers.

Unmarried couples--United States.

Unmarried couples.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Unmarried Couples with Children presents an intimate portrait of the challenges faced by partnering and parenting with couples who have children without the benefit of marriage.

Contents:

Unmarried couples with children : hoping for love and the white picket fence

Forming fragile families : was the baby planned, unplanned, or in between?

Everyday gender conflicts in low-income couples

Expectations and the economic bar to marriage among low-income couples

Steppin' out : infidelity and sexual jealousy among unmarried parents

Anatomy of the breakup : how and why do unmarried couples with children break up?

#1 father or fathering 101? : couple relationship quality and father involvement when fathers live with their children

Blended but not the Bradys : navigating unmarried multiple partner fertility

Gatekeeper moms and (un)involved dads : what happens after a breakup?

Child support among low-income noncustodial fathers

Mixing methods : reliability and validity across quantitative and qualitative measures of relationship quality

Data from the TLC3.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61044-186-9

OCLC:

652332420