Abstract
Marriages of adolescents to legitimize births has declined dramatically in the United States among black and white teenagers in recent years. This paper reports on a qualitative study of why black and white teenage mothers from middle-class, working-class, and lower-class backgrounds remained unmarried after becoming pregnant. The paper discusses in what ways the teens' reasons for single motherhood vary by their class and race. The study suggests that, while many of these reasons are more closely associated with a teen's class than race, particularly among the non-disadvantaged young women, there are also differences across race that indicate a complex relationship between class and race in adolescents' marital choices.
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