TY - BOOK ID - 134583663 TI - Tough choices : bearing an illegitimate child in contemporary Japan PY - 2009 SN - 0804772398 9780804772396 9780804761291 0804761299 PB - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Unmarried mothers UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134583663 AB - This book offers the first detailed study of why the number of unmarried Japanese mothers has hardly changed since 1955, despite the prevalence of certain factors in Japan (more later marriages, higher divorce rate, and so on) that have brought about significant increases in lone mothers in even the most conservative western industrialized countries. ER -