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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Doing the Best I Can is a deeply collaborative work; though the authors’ names appear in alphabetical order, Edin and Nelson contributed equally to the project. After the years of data collection in Camden and Philadelphia, we spent hundreds of hours discussing the research and our findings, trading chapters and paragraphs so frequently that it is now impossible to determine who wrote what sentence of the book. Favorite writing venues included Peet’s Coffee in Evanston, Infusion in Philadelphia, Lord Tyler’s House and the Fells Grind in Baltimore, and especially the coffee shops along Second Minjiang Road, Qingdao, China.

This research was funded by the William T. Grant Foundation, which not only covered the research costs but also paid the rent on a small apartment in the Rosedale section of Camden, NJ, so we could live there part-time. Additional funding came from the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.

Andrew Cherlin, Stefanie DeLuca, and Paula England read multiple drafts of this manuscript and offered many valuable suggestions and insights. Monica Bell, Matthew Desmond, Jamie Fader, Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Barbara Kiviat, James Quane, Laura Tach, Kristin Turney, Julie Wilson, Holly Wood, and an anonymous reviewer also offered comments, pointed out errors, and sharpened our thinking. Early versions of this work benefited from the feedback from members of the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy: Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Cecilia Contrad, Paula England, Nancy Folbre, Irwin Garfinkel, Sara McLanahan, Ronald Mincy, Robert Pollak, Timothy Smeeding, and Robert Willis. Lisa Adams, our agent, and Naomi Schneider, our editor, offered vital assistance and a wealth of practical advice. Responsibility for errors and oversights, however, is our own.

Amy Abraham, Antwi Akom, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Rebecca Kissane, David Mitchell, Jennifer Morgan, Shelley Shannon, Eric Shaw, and Kimberly Torres assisted in data collection. Jennifer Augustine, Steve Augustine, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Heidi Hiemstra, Kathryn Linnenberg, Rechelle Paranel, and Verity Sandell coded the data.

In Camden Sam Apple, Jodina Hicks, Bruce Main, Mary Ann Merion, Jay Rosen, and Shelley Shannon helped us to learn about the city and its history. Shelley and Jay were also our landlords, providing the small apartment on the first floor of their Camden home.

Drew and Leah Hood spent several weeks photographing the fathers and children who appear on the cover and insert photos. Due to confidentiality concerns, those portrayed in the photographs are not in the study, though all live in neighborhoods where we conducted our fieldwork.