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Promises I Can Keep Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage

Kathryn Edin

Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her children be better off if she had waited to have the...

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The Dr. John Delony Show

This book explores single mothers and examines the dynamic of how having a child can unexpectedly bring couples back together, often obscuring other issues in the relationship.

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There's a, there's a book called Promises I Can Keep which is a, it's basically a qualitative inquiry into single moms.

— Episode: My Kid’s Travel Sport Is Taking Over Our...

Episode: My Kid’s Travel Sport Is Taking Over Our Lives

This book explores single mothers and examines the dynamic of how having a child can unexpectedly bring couples back together, often obscuring other issues in the relationship.

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There's a, there's a book called Promises I Can Keep which is a, it's basically a qualitative inquiry into single moms.

And why it's a deep dive to my Catherine Eden and Maria I think it's Kaffalas. I think it is Kaffalas.

They talk about this thing called a magic moment where couples that find themselves pregnant they've broken up or they're separated.

It has a, like this pregnancy that have in the baby, the hold in the baby often not always but often brings people back and seems to the light around this event is so bright.

It covers up all the shadows everywhere else.

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