Their babies are everything.(Book Review)

PROMISES I CAN KEEP: WHY POOR WOMEN PUT MOTHERHOOD BEFORE MARRIAGE BY KATHRYN EDIN AND MARLA KEFALAS University of California Press, 312 pages, $24.95

IN THE AMERICAN PANTHEON OF evildoers, "welfare moms" easily outrank rotten CEOs, corrupt defense contractors, and media moguls who sell sex and sensation. No group has been as demonized, denigrated, or denounced as the poor girls who have children before they are married or financially prepared. But why try to get to the bottom of complex cultural problems when kicking the underdogs and blaming them for what's wrong ...