Promises They Can Keep: Low-Income Women’s Attitudes Toward Motherhood, Marriage, and Divorce
| dc.contributor.author | Cherlin, Andrew | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cross-Barnet, Caitlin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Burton, Linda M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Garrett-Peters, Raymond | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-08T15:24:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-09-08T15:24:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-10-23 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Using data on low-income mothers in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, we test three propositions regarding mothers’ attitudes toward childbearing, marriage, and divorce. These are drawn from K. Edin and M. J. Kefalas (2005) but have also arisen in other recent studies. We find strong support for the proposition that childbearing outside of marriage carries little stigma, limited support for the proposition that women prefer to have children well before marrying, and almost no support for the proposition that women hesitate to marry because they fear divorce. We suggest that mothers’ attitudes and preferences in these three domains do not support the long delay between childbearing and marriage that has been noted in the literature. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | We thank the Administration on Children and Families for supporting our research through grant 90OJ2020. We also wish to acknowledge core support to the Three-City Study from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development through grants HD36093 and HD25936 and from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Administration on Developmental Disabilities, Administration for Children and Families, Social Security Administration, National Institute of Mental Health, The Boston Foundation, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Joyce Foundation, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Kronkosky Charitable Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and Woods Fund of Chicago. We also thank Sharon Sassler and Megan Sweeney for their comments, and we thank Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas for providing us with an advance copy of their book manuscript. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00536.x | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 20 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles | en_US |
| dc.genre | postprints | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2acqu-3ewv | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Cherlin, Andrew et al.; Promises They Can Keep: Low-Income Women’s Attitudes Toward Motherhood, Marriage, and Divorce; Journal of Marriage and Family, 70, 4, pages 919-933, 23 October, 2008; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00536.x | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00536.x | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/22963 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Wiley Online Library | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC School of Public Policy Collection | |
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| dc.rights | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Cherlin, Andrew et al.; Promises They Can Keep: Low-Income Women’s Attitudes Toward Motherhood, Marriage, and Divorce; Journal of Marriage and Family, 70, 4, pages 919-933, 23 October, 2008; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00536.x, which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00536.x | |
| dc.title | Promises They Can Keep: Low-Income Women’s Attitudes Toward Motherhood, Marriage, and Divorce | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |