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Examines the reasons nearly two hundred thousand single American women have decided to become mothers, and discusses father's rights, adoption, family responses, and the effects of single parenting on mother and child

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9780531098479, titled "And Baby Makes Two: Motherhood Without Marriage" | Franklin Watts, October 1, 1984, cover price $16.95 | also contains And Baby Makes Two: Motherhood Without Marriage | About this edition: Examines the reasons nearly two hundred thousand single American women have decided to become mothers, and discusses father's rights, adoption, family responses, and the effects of single parenting on mother and child

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Product Description: Over half of all births to young adults in the United States now occur outside of marriage, and many are unplanned. The result is increased poverty and inequality for children. The left argues for more social support for unmarried parents; the right argues for a return to traditional marriage...read more

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9780815725589 | Brookings Inst Pr, September 25, 2014, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Over half of all births to young adults in the United States now occur outside of marriage, and many are unplanned.

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9780815726357 | Brookings Inst Pr, September 25, 2014, cover price $25.00

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9781607417569 | 1 edition (Nova Science Pub Inc, May 30, 2010), cover price $49.00

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Product Description: Today, a third of American children are born outside of marriage, up from one child in twenty in the 1950s, and rates are even higher among low-income Americans. Many herald this trend as one of the most troubling of our time. But the decline in marriage does not necessarily signal the demise of the two parent family—over 80 percent of unmarried couples are still romantically involved when their child is born and nearly half are living together...read more
By Kathryn Edin (editor)

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9780871542854 | Russell Sage Foundation, October 1, 2007, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: Today, a third of American children are born outside of marriage, up from one child in twenty in the 1950s, and rates are even higher among low-income Americans.

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9780871543172 | Russell Sage Foundation, May 1, 2009, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Today, a third of American children are born outside of marriage, up from one child in twenty in the 1950s, and rates are even higher among low-income Americans.
9780153792014, titled "Law and Citizenship in America" | Harcourt College Pub, January 1, 1982, cover price $20.75 | also contains Law and Citizenship in America

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Product Description: Warm, honest, funny, and empowering, Rattled! is an unforgettable memoir of a life that takes an unexpected turn—and a brave young woman who decides to follow where the road leads. Everything in twenty-six-year-old Christine’s life was going as planned—great friends, a promising job as a magazine assistant, New York City at her feet ...read more

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9780767930826 | Broadway Books, April 14, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Warm, honest, funny, and empowering, Rattled!

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Product Description: This book is about the Constitutional rights of illegitimate children and their parents, about the right to give birth and raise your own children regardless of race and marital status. It was inspired by Chrystal Chambers and her lawsuit against the Omaha Girls Club for pregnancy and race discrimination tried in l986...read more

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9781425761653 | Xlibris Corp, October 31, 2007, cover price $31.99 | About this edition: This book is about the Constitutional rights of illegitimate children and their parents, about the right to give birth and raise your own children regardless of race and marital status.

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Product Description: Most unmarried women who engage in sexual intercourse do not become unwed mothers. They use contraceptives, secure an abortion, or get married before the baby is born. What happens to the minority of women who bear illegitimate children? This book is the first study to describe in detail the actual situation of unwed motherhood, as opposed to the causes and pathology of deviance...read more

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9780202309552 | Aldine De Gruyter, May 1, 2007, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Most unmarried women who engage in sexual intercourse do not become unwed mothers.

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More than thirty young women who became teenage mothers share their real-life experiences of childbirth, continuing their education, dealing with abusive relationships, starting careers and supporting their child, coping with the judgment of peers, dealing with non-supportive teachers and counselors, and more. Original. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
By Deborah Davis (editor)

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9780399529764 | J P Tarcher, April 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: More than thirty young women who became teenage mothers share their real-life experiences of childbirth, continuing their education, dealing with abusive relationships, starting careers and supporting their child, coping with the judgment of peers, dealing with non-supportive teachers and counselors, and more.

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Product Description: The U.S. has experienced a dramatic increase in births to unmarried women in recent decades—from 4% of births in 1950, with most of the babies then adopted, to more than 30% today. Melissa Ludtke's book is the only in-depth analysis of this radical change in family formation to compare and contrast the lives of these mothers of varying ages and economic circumstances...read more

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9780679424147 | Random House Inc, September 1, 1997, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Focuses on the two extremes of unmarried mothers--teenagers and women over the age of thirty-five--and compares and contrasts their situations and experiences

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9780520218307 | Univ of California Pr on Demand, February 1, 1999, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: The U.

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Examines the problems associated with being pregnant and single and assists women in making sound decisions concerning their pregnancy

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9780836190922 | Revised edition (Herald Pr, December 1, 1998), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Examines the problems associated with being pregnant and single and assists women in making sound decisions concerning their pregnancy

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Product Description: Abrahamson focuses on the dramatic increase in out-of-wedlock births that occurred in the United States during the last half of the 20th century. He provides the most current demographic data, and summarizes the findings in a nontechnical manner made more meaningful by references to the lives of actual people...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780275956622 | Praeger Pub Text, July 1, 1998, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: Abrahamson focuses on the dramatic increase in out-of-wedlock births that occurred in the United States during the last half of the 20th century.

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9780275956653 | Praeger Pub Text, July 1, 1998, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Abrahamson focuses on the dramatic increase in out-of-wedlock births that occurred in the United States during the last half of the 20th century.

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Product Description: The association between teen childbearing and poverty is unmistakable. Women who grow up in poor families begin childbearing at a younger age than nonpoor women, attain less education, work less, earn less, are more dependent on federal aid, have less support from a husband, have more children, and spend more time as single mothers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781566394994 | Temple Univ Pr, December 3, 1996, cover price $59.50 | About this edition: The association between teen childbearing and poverty is unmistakable.

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Examines the reasons nearly two hundred thousand single American women have decided to become mothers, and discusses father's rights, adoption, family responses, and the effects of single parenting on mother and child

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9780531098479 | Franklin Watts, October 1, 1984, cover price $16.95 | also contains The Actor, a Script, and an Ox: A Zen Approach to Acting | About this edition: Examines the reasons nearly two hundred thousand single American women have decided to become mothers, and discusses father's rights, adoption, family responses, and the effects of single parenting on mother and child

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By Enis

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9780153792014 | Harcourt College Pub, January 1, 1982, cover price $20.75 | also contains Unmarried Couples With Children

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Documents the incidence and numerous medical, social, psychological, and emotional complications of adolescent pregnancy, and suggests measures for preventing recurrences and encouraging personal development. Bibliogs
By Wayne Brandstadt and Jack Zackler (compiler)

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9780398031527 | Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd, June 1, 1974, cover price $19.25 | About this edition: Documents the incidence and numerous medical, social, psychological, and emotional complications of adolescent pregnancy, and suggests measures for preventing recurrences and encouraging personal development.

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Product Description: Most unmarried women who engage in sexual intercourse do not become unwed mothers. They use contraceptives, secure an abortion, or get married before the baby is born. What happens to the minority of women who bear illegitimate children? This book is the first study to describe in detail the actual situation of unwed motherhood, as opposed to the causes and pathology of deviance...read more

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9780202300801 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, June 1, 1971, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Most unmarried women who engage in sexual intercourse do not become unwed mothers.

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9780313226779 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1966, cover price $65.00

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