Haley Baumeister’s Reviews > Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage, with a New Preface > Status Update

"The heady significance of the declaration “I want to have a baby by you” is also fueled by the extraordinarily high social value the poor place on children. For a lack of compelling alternatives, poor youth like Antonia and Emilio often begin to eagerly anticipate children and the social role of parents at a remarkably tender age."