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© 2013 by Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson

Portions of chapter 3 were first published in Kathryn Edin, Timothy Nelson, and Joanna Miranda Reed, “Daddy, Baby; Momma Maybe: Low-Income Urban Fathers and the ‘Package Deal’ of Family Life,” in Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America, edited by Paula England and Marcia Carlson (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011), 85–107.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Edin, Kathryn, 1962–

Doing the best I can : fatherhood in the inner city / Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-520-27406-8 (cloth : alk. paper)

eISBN 978-0-520-95513-4

1. Unmarried fathers—United States. 2. Single fathers—United States. 3. Fatherhood—United States. 4. Poor children—United States. I. Nelson, Timothy Jon. II. Title.

HV700.7.E35 2013

362.82’940973—dc232012030147

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