Why Many Underprivileged Unions are Unstable - Dr. Kathryn Edin

Kathryn Edin was the speaker at the 2017 Marjorie Pay Hinckley Lecture. In this video series she addresses Family Instability and Complexity.
Kathryn Edin is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology at Zanvyl Krieger School and the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, in the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests lie in the fields of families, poverty, welfare, and single parenthood. She has published a number of books and academic studies on the subjects of the behaviors of various poor American populations. She received her PhD in sociology from Northwestern University, her MA in Sociology from Northwestern University, and her BA in Sociology from North Park University.
She has done more than any scholar to help people understand family formation and dissolution behavior of low-income young men and women in the United States. Her extended ethnographic research among those populations have helped to shed light on why they tend to choose to have children but not marry, why the romantic relationships they form tend to be fragile, and how parenthood gains powerful meaning in their lives. Her work has been very influential in shaping policy discussions and debates.
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