Maria Kefalas: 2 books
Promises I Can Keep
Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her children be better off if she had waited to have them...
Hollowing Out the Middle
The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and followed working-class “stayers”; ambitious and college-bound “achievers”;...