@inbook{257,
  keywords = {Family structure and stability, Romantic relationships},
  editor = {Paula England and Kathryn Edin},
  title = {Unmarried Couples with Children: Hoping for Love and the White Picket Fence},
  abstract = {<p>Unmarried Couples with Children is a landmark study of the family lives of nearly fifty American children born outside of a marital union at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Based on personal narratives gathered from both mothers and fathers over the first four years of their children{\textquoteright}s lives, and told partly in the couples{\textquoteright} own words, the story begins before the child is conceived, takes the reader through the tumultuous months of pregnancy to the moment of birth, and on through the child{\textquoteright}s fourth birthday. It captures in rich detail the complex relationship dynamics and powerful social forces that derail the plans of so many unmarried parents. The volume injects some much-needed reality into the national discussion about family values, and reveals that the issues are more complex than our political discourse suggests.</p>
},
  year = {2007},
  publisher = {Russell Sage},
  address = {New York},
  url = {https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/521664},
}