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Demonstrates the impact of economic conditions on family life and views patterns of marriage and childbearing as responsive to prevailing social and political conditions. This title argues that high levels of single-parenthood among urban African American families reflect rational responses to socio-economic environment and government policies.

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Winner of the Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Sociological Demography, Sociology of Population Section of the American Sociological Association, 1999.

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      Publisher: MO - University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: 01/12/1998
      ISBN13: 9780252067457, 978-0252067457
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Demonstrates the impact of economic conditions on family life and views patterns of marriage and childbearing as responsive to prevailing social and political conditions. This title argues that high levels of single-parenthood among urban African American families reflect rational responses to socio-economic environment and government policies.

      Trade Review
      Winner of the Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Sociological Demography, Sociology of Population Section of the American Sociological Association, 1999.

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