Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture: "Motherhood, Not Marriage"
The Center for Research on Families presents
"Motherhood, Not Marriage"
Kathryn Edin
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Sociology and Center for Population Studies
Kathryn Edin is an Associate Professor of Sociology and a Research Associate at the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on policy relevant issues including urban poverty, social welfare, public housing, child support, and nonmarital childbearing. She is the author or coauthor of, There's a Lot of Month Left at the End of the Money; How Low Income Single Mothers Make Ends Meet in Chicago (1993), Making Ends Meet; How Low Income Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low Wage Work (with Laura Lein) (1997) and Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage (with Maria J. Kefalas) (2005). She is currently writing a fourth book, tentatively titled Marginal Men: Fatherhood and the Lives Low Income Unmarried Men (with Timothy Nelson and Laura Lein). Edin received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University in 1991, and taught at Rutgers University and Northwestern University before coming to Penn.
Through the Tay Gavin Erickson Lectures, the Center for Research on Families (CRF) brings nationally recognized speakers with expertise in family research to campus each year. The lecture series began in 1999 though an endowment established in memory of Tay Gavin Erickson. The Tay Gavin Erickson Lectures are being held in collaboration with the Center for Public Policy and Administration.
