Contents
About the Authors
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Unmarried Couples with Children: Hoping for Love and the White Picket Fence - Paula England and Kathryn Edin
Part II: Couple Relationships Among Unmarried Parents
Chapter 2: Forming Fragile Families: Was the Baby Planned, Unplanned, or In Between? - Kathryn Edin, Paula England, Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer, and Joanna Reed
Chapter 3: Everyday Gender Conflicts in Low-Income Couples - Paula England and Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer
Chapter 4: Expectations and the Economic Bar to Marriage Among Low-Income Couples - Christina M. Gibson-Davis
Chapter 5: Steppin’ Out: Infidelity and Sexual Jealousy Among Unmarried Parents - Heather D. Hill
Chapter 6: Anatomy of the Breakup: How and Why Do Unmarried Couples with Children Break Up? - Joanna Reed
Part III: Parenting Together and Apart
Chapter 7: #1 Father or Fathering 101?: Couple Relationship Quality and Father Involvement When Fathers Live with Their Children - Kathryn D. Linnenberg
Chapter 8: Blended but Not the Bradys: Navigating Unmarried Multiple Partner Fertility - Lindsay M. Monte
Chapter 9: Gatekeeper Moms and (Un)Involved Dads: What Happens After a Breakup? - Amy Claessens
Chapter 10: Child Support Among Low-Income Noncustodial Fathers - Katherine A. Magnuson and Christina M. Gibson-Davis
Part IV: Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods and Data
Chapter 11: Mixing Methods: Reliability and Validity Across Quantitative and Qualitative Measures of Relationship Quality - Mimi Engel
Chapter 12: Data from the TLC3 - Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer
Index