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Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City
By Edin, Kathryn & Timothy J. Nelson
- ISBN
- 9780520274068
- Publisher
- Univ. of California
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Reviewed on June 1, 2013 | Social Sciences
Social commentators as diverse as Bill Cosby, Louis Farrakhan, and Gloria Steinem have lamented the absence of fathers in the lives of inner-city children. In contrast, Edin (public policy & management; Promises I Can Keep) and Nelson (social policy; Every Time I Feel the Spirit), both at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, present a study of unwed urban fathers, without nostalgia, judgment, or irony. Based on 110 interviews conducted in Camden, NJ, and...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
