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Life Without Father: Single Mothers in the New America

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  1. Katherine Edin and her colleagues have already begun to address this question in a nationwide study based on interviews with 400 “absent” fathers.

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    Cameron Lynne Macdonald

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Macdonald, C.L. Life Without Father: Single Mothers in the New America. Qual Sociol 31, 89–94 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-007-9087-4

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