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Product details
- ISBN 9780520218307
- Weight: 726g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 1999
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The U.S. has experienced a dramatic increase in births to unmarried women in recent decades - from 4 per cent of births in 1950, with most of the babies then adopted, to more than 30 per cent 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.
Melissa Ludtke is a journalist. While researching and writing On Our Own she had fellowships at Harvard, Radcliffe, and the Columbia School of Journalism.
