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Gassanov, Margaret A.; Nicholson, Lisa M.; Koch-Turner, Amanda – Youth & Society, 2008
Since welfare reform in 1996, marriage has been promoted as a means to reduce welfare dependency and out-of-wedlock childbearing. Despite extensive public and academic discourse surrounding marriage promotion, a basic factor preceding and predicting marriage--expectations to marry--has received little attention. Using insights from the life course…
Descriptors: Poverty, Pregnancy, Marriage, Youth