Unmarried Mothers Who Kept Their First Out-of-Wedlock Child: An Evaluation of the Personal and Social Adjustment of Thirteen Residents of the New York Foundling Hospital Shelter in 1963-1964 Who Chose to Keep Their Babies
Abstract
National and local studies have documented the fact that the overwhelming majority of babies born out-of-wedlock are kept by their mothers and are not surrendered for adoption. Nationally, it has been estimated that this is the situation for about two-thirds of all such babies. In New York only about one child out of every five born out-of-wedlock is placed for adoption.
Subject Area
Social work|Personality psychology|Individual & family studies|Social psychology
Recommended Citation
Darcy, Frances Marie, "Unmarried Mothers Who Kept Their First Out-of-Wedlock Child: An Evaluation of the Personal and Social Adjustment of Thirteen Residents of the New York Foundling Hospital Shelter in 1963-1964 Who Chose to Keep Their Babies" (1968). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30359756.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30359756
