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200 10$aSingle by chance, mothers by choice$b[electronic resource] $ehow women are choosing parenthood without marriage and creating the new American family /$fRosanna Hertz
210   $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2006
215   $a1 online resource (294 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [257]-264) and index.
327   $aContents; 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?
327   $a8 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; Z
330   $aA 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 not
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