Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage

Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage

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 Philadel…

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