Single by chance, mothers by choice [electronic resource] : how women are choosing parenthood without marriage and creating the new American family / Rosanna Hertz.
Hertz, Rosanna.
2006
HQ536 .H48 2006eb

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Title Single by chance, mothers by choice [electronic resource] : how women are choosing parenthood without marriage and creating the new American family / Rosanna Hertz.
Author Hertz, Rosanna.
ISBN 9781429459204 (electronic bk.)
1429459204 (electronic bk.)
Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xx, 273 p.)
Call Number HQ536 .H48 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.874/3208622
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-264) and index.
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pt. I. The big decision
1. "Why can't I have what I want?"
2. Liminality and the courage to change : making the decision to become a single mother
3. Moving on : when baby makes two
pt. II. After baby, now what?
Introduction : "Where do we fit?"
4. The father as an idea
5. Romance, intimacy, and pregnancy : father involvement outside of marriage
6. Adoption and fitting in
Conclusion : ordinary lives, extraordinary circumstances
pt. III. Composing a family
Introduction : recycling and reconstituting families
7. What does single mean?
8. Downshifting careers while financing motherhood : relying on the gift-giver, the roommate, and the careworker
9. A world without men, Amen?
Conclusion : what does it mean to be a good mother?
Conclusion : projecting single mothers into the future
Epilogue : completing families, completing lives
Appendix 1 : demographic appendix : featured women
Appendix 2 : methods and sampling.

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