“You Can’t Put Your Trust in Men”
“You Can’t Put Your Trust in Men”
Gender Distrust and Marriage
This chapter concerns women's relationships with the fathers of their children and other romantic partners. Many women reported they could not trust the fathers of their children or other romantic partners. Even though some women were romantically involved with men, they often kept partners at arms' length, and their suspicions kept them from marrying the men in their lives. Despite welfare reform's removal of several marriage disincentives and its rhetoric about the value of marriage, distrust still forestalled marriage. The chapter argues that that welfare reform policies did not effectively promote marriage because they did not address distrust between women and men or the structures that create it.
Keywords: gender distrust, marriage promotion, marriage disincentives, romantic relationships, welfare reform
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