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- Title
Trading the Picket Fence: Perceptions of Childbirth, Marriage, and Career.
- Authors
PARHAM-PAYNE, WANDA; DICKERSON, BETTE J.; EVERETTE, TEKISHA DWAN
- Abstract
While there was a slightly lower rate of out-of-wedlock births in 2009, 41 percent of all births were to unmarried women. Although there has been an increase across the board among older age groups, Black women continue to have children out of wedlock at a disproportionately higher rate than White and Asian women. This is of particular interest, considering African-American women are increasingly attaining higher levels of education in comparison to previous generations of African-American women. As such, the perceptions of childbirth, child-rearing, and marriage among a sample of African-American women matriculating within a postsecondary setting are explored.
- Subjects
BIRTHS to unmarried women; AFRICAN American women; CHILDBIRTH; CHILD rearing; AFRICAN American mothers; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 2013, Vol 40, Issue 3, p85
- ISSN
0191-5096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15453/0191-5096.3747