On Our Own

Author/Contributor(s):	Ludtke, Melissa
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	03/31/1999
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.