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Kathryn J. Edin, Maria J. KefalasPromises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
Kathryn J. Edin, Maria J. KefalasNonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
Promises I Can Keep was published in 2005, with much of the research conducted during the late 1990s. Has much has changed regarding the lives of low-income, single mothers in the United States and their perspectives on childrearing and marriage?
In 2013, Kathryn Edin co-authored Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City. How do the examinations of low-income fatherhood in this book build on or contrast with arguments made in Promises I Can Keep?
Edin and Kefalas chose to combine quantitative and qualitative data for their study. What effect does living within a researched community have on the study? How does it differ from purely quantitative studies? What are the arguments for and against developing personal relationships with research subjects?
