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Doing the best I can : fatherhood in the inner city / Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson.
LIBRA HV700.7 .E35 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edin, Kathryn, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Unmarried fathers--United States.
- Unmarried fathers.
- Single fathers--United States.
- Single fathers.
- Poor children.
- United States.
- Fatherhood--United States.
- Fatherhood.
- Poor children--United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 284 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- A strikingly rich, paradigm-shifting look at fatherhood among inner-city men often dismissed as "deadbeat dads." Edin and Nelson examine how couples in challenging straits come together and get pregnant so quickly--without planning.
- Contents:
- Getting together
- Embracing fatherhood
- The new package deal
- Doing the best I can
- Being there
- Fragile fatherhood
- The family-go-round
- (Re)claiming fatherhood.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520274068
- 0520274067
- OCLC:
- 805831490
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