books.google.com - "This is the most important study ever written on motherhood and marriage among low-income urban women. Edin and Kefalas's timely, engaging, and well-written book is a careful ethnographic study that paints an indelible portrait of family life in poor communities and, in the process, provides incredible...http://books.google.com/books/about/Promises_I_can_keep.html?id=xnGAwzqXAaEC&q=poverty+line&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePromises I can keep