On our own : unmarried motherhood in America
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On our own : unmarried motherhood in America
University of California Press, 1999, c1997
- : alk. paper
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Note
Originally published: New York : Random House, 1997
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The U.S. has experienced a dramatic increase in births to unmarried women in recent decades - from 4 per cent of births in 1950, with most of the babies then adopted, to more than 30 per cent today. Melissa Ludtke's book is the only in-depth analysis of this radical change in family formation to compare and contrast the lives of these mothers of varying ages and economic circumstances.
Table of Contents
Prologue
1. My Story: Decision-making About Unmarried Motherhood
2. Unmarried Motherhood: A Half-Century of Change
3. Having a Baby: Unmarried Adolescent Mothers
4. Having a Baby: Unmarried Older Mothers
5. Raising Children: Unmarried Adolescent Mothers
6. Raising Children: Unmarried Older Mothers
7. Where's Daddy? Unmarried Adolescent Mothers
8. Where's Daddy? Unmarried Okler Mothers
9. Unmarried Mothers: Who We Are and Where We're Headed
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
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