On Our Own

Unmarried Motherhood in America

• Author(s): Melissa Ludtke,
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Pages: 471
• ISBN_10: 0520218302
  ISBN_13: 9780520218307
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Family & Relationships / Parenting / Motherhood , Family & Relationships / Parenting / Single Parent , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family , Social Science / Gender Studies ,

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.