OFA Brown Bag: Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City

On June 11, 2014, the Office of Family Assistance (OFA) hosted a brown bag “Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City.” This brown bag featured Kathryn Edin from John’s Hopkins University. Ms. Edin discussed their research on unwed fathers, fatherhood, and relationship formation. Their presentation featured personal accounts from fathers and their experiences and relationships with their own children and discussed future strategies on how to improve father involvement in a child’s life and promote healthy relationship formation.