Unmarried Couples with Children

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Contents About the Authors vii PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Chapter 1 Unmarried Couples with Children: Hoping for Love and the White Picket Fence 3 Paula England and Kathryn Edin PART II COUPLE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG UNMARRIED PARENTS 23 Chapter 2 Forming Fragile Families: Was the Baby Planned, Unplanned, or In Between? 25 Kathryn Edin, Paula England, Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer, and Joanna Reed Chapter 3 Everyday Gender Conflicts in Low-Income Couples 55 Paula England and Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer Chapter 4 Expectations and the Economic Bar to Marriage Among Low-Income Couples 84 Christina M. Gibson-Davis Chapter 5 Steppin’ Out: Infidelity and Sexual Jealousy Among Unmarried Parents 104 Heather D. Hill Chapter 6 Anatomy of the Breakup: How and Why Do Unmarried Couples with Children Break Up? 133 Joanna Reed PART III PARENTING TOGETHER AND APART 157 Chapter 7 #1 Father or Fathering 101?: Couple Relationship Quality and Father Involvement When Fathers Live with Their Children 159 Kathryn D. Linnenberg Chapter 8 Blended but Not the Bradys: Navigating Unmarried Multiple Partner Fertility 183 Lindsay M. Monte Chapter 9 Gatekeeper Moms and (Un)Involved Dads: What Happens After a Breakup? 204 Amy Claessens Chapter 10 Child Support Among Low-Income Noncustodial Fathers 228 Katherine A. Magnuson and Christina M. Gibson-Davis PART IV MIXING QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE METHODS AND DATA 253 Chapter 11 Mixing Methods: Reliability and Validity Across Quantitative and Qualitative Measures of Relationship Quality 255 Mimi Engel Chapter 12 Data from the TLC3 277 Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer Index 293 vi Contents ...