03604nam 2200649 a 450 991046510440332120200520144314.00-19-534140-61-280-84537-61-4294-5920-40-19-803991-3(CKB)2560000000301355(EBL)430936(OCoLC)609831611(SSID)ssj0000246255(PQKBManifestationID)11227041(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246255(PQKBWorkID)10180436(PQKB)10784789(StDuBDS)EDZ0000082812(MiAaPQ)EBC430936(Au-PeEL)EBL430936(CaPaEBR)ebr10177864(CaONFJC)MIL84537(EXLCZ)99256000000030135520060111d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSingle by chance, mothers by choice[electronic resource] how women are choosing parenthood without marriage and creating the new American family /Rosanna HertzNew York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (294 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-517990-0 0-19-994411-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-264) and index.Contents; Prologue; Introduction; Part 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; Part 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; Part 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 Careworker9 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; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; ZA 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 notFamiliesUnited StatesSingle mothersUnited StatesMiddle class womenUnited StatesElectronic books.FamiliesSingle mothersMiddle class women306.874/3208622Hertz Rosanna895058MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465104403321Single by chance, mothers by choice2021916UNINA