Project Summary: This is an excerpt from the authors' book with the same title. The reading presents research data gathered for over three years in inner-city neighborhoods of Philadelphia, PA, and Camden, NJ during the early-2000s. The reading is very rich in description - exactly how great ethnographic research should be done. The authors talk about the concepts of marriage and motherhood in these low-income areas. They noticed a disjoint. If middle-class women get married but can't have kids, low-income women don't get married but have kids. How can we account for the decoupling of marriage and motherhood among low-income women?