Unmarried couples with children / edited by Paula England and Kathryn Edin. - New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2007. - vii, 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unmarried couples with children : hoping for love and the white picket fence / Paula England and Kathryn Edin -- Forming fragile families : was the baby planned, unplanned, or in between? / Kathryn Edin ... [et a.] -- Everyday gender conflicts in low income couples / Paula England and Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer -- Expectations and the economic bar to marriage among low income couples / Christina M. Gibson-Davis -- Steppin' out : infidelity and sexual jealousy among unmarried parents / Heather D. Hill -- Anatomy of the break-up : how and why do unmarried couples with children break-up? / Joanna Reed -- #1 father or fathering 101? : couple relationship quality and father involvement among fathers who live with their children / Kathryn D. Linnenberg -- Blended but not the Bradys : navigating unmarried multiple partner fertility / Lindsay M. Monte -- Gatekeeper moms and (un)involved dads : what happens after a breakup? / Amy Claessens -- Explaining the patterns of child support among low-income noncustodial fathers / Katherine A. Magnuson and Christina M. Gibson-Davis -- Mixing methods : reliability and validity across quantitative and qualitative measures of relationship quality / Mimi Engel -- Data from the TLC3 (time, love, and cash among couples with children) study / Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer.

9780871542854 (alk. paper)

2007009607


Unmarried couples--United States.
Unmarried mothers--United States.
Unmarried fathers--United States.
Single parents--United States.

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