Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City by Edin, Kathryn

Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520274068)

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Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City by Edin, Kathryn

Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City

$85.00
Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City by Edin, Kathryn

Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City

$85.00
Format: Hardcover
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Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. Doing the Best I Can is a strikingly rich, paradigm-shifting look at fatherhood among inner-city men often dismissed as "deadbeat dads." Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson examine how couples in challenging straits come together and get pregnant so quickly--without planning. The authors chronicle the high hopes for forging lasting family bonds that pregnancy inspires, and pinpoint the fatal flaws that often lead to the relationship's demise. They offer keen insight into a radical redefinition of family life where the father-child bond is central and parental ties are peripheral.

Drawing on years of fieldwork, Doing the Best I Can shows how mammoth economic and cultural changes have transformed the meaning of fatherhood among the urban poor. Intimate interviews with more than 100 fathers make real the significant obstacles faced by low-income men at every step in the familial process: from the difficulties of romantic relationships, to decision-making dilemmas at conception, to the often celebratory moment of birth, and finally to the hardships that accompany the early years of the child's life, and beyond.



Author: Kathryn Edin, Timothy J. Nelson
ISBN-10: 0520274067
ISBN-13: 9780520274068
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2013
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.38w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/2013 pg. 125
Choice 11/01/2013
By Kathryn Edin
By Kathryn Edin
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Kathryn Edin is Distinguished Bloomberg Professor in the Department of Sociology and also teaches in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. She is the coauthor of Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City, Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage, and Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work.

Timothy Nelson is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Every Time I Feel the Spirit: Religious Experience and Ritual in an African American Church.

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