Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family
By Rosanna Hertz.
Description
A remarkable number of women today are taking the daunting step of having children outside of marriage. In Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice, Rosanna Hertz offers the first full-scale account of this fast-growing phenomenon, revealing why these middle class women took this unorthodox path and how they have managed to make single parenthood work for them. Hertz interviewed 65 women--ranging from physicians and financial analysts to social workers, teachers, and secretaries--women who speak candidly about how they manage their lives and families as single mothers. What Hertz discovers are n...
ISBN(s)
0195179900, 9780195179903
