@article{ref1,
title="The Role of Trust in Low‐Income Mothers' Intimate Unions",
journal="Journal of marriage and family",
year="2009",
author="Burton, Linda M. and Cherlin, Andrew and Winn, Donna‐Marie C. and Estacion, Angela and Holder‐Taylor, Clara",
volume="71",
number="5",
pages="1107-1124",
abstract="Recent scholarship concerning low rates of marriage among low-income mothers emphasizes generalized gender distrust as a major impediment in forming sustainable intimate unions. Guided by symbolic interaction theory and longitudinal ethnographic data on 256 low-income mothers from the Three-City Study, we argue that generalized gender distrust may not be as influential in shaping mothers' unions as some researchers suggest. Grounded theory analysis revealed that 96% of the mothers voiced a general distrust of men, yet that distrust did not deter them from involvement in intimate unions. Rather, the pivotal ways mothers enacted trust in their partners were demonstrated by 4 emergent forms of interpersonal trust that we labeled as suspended, compartmentalized, misplaced, and integrated. Implications for future research are discussed.<p />",
language="",
issn="0022-2445",
doi="10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00658.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00658.x"
}