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Expert on 'Single Parenthood' to Speak at Duke Jan. 14

Sociologist Kathryn Edin, an expert on single parenthood, will lecture at Duke University on Wednesday, Jan. 14.

Edin will speak from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Rhodes Conference Room of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy building, 201 Science Drive, on Duke's West Campus. Her lecture, "Fragile Fatherhood: What Being a Daddy Means in the Lives of Low-Income Men," is part of the Center for Child and Family Policy's Sulzberger Distinguished Lecture Series.

The event is free and open to the public. To register, call (919) 613-9350, e-mail ehlayko@duke.edu or visit childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu.

A professor of public policy and management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Edin's research focuses on urban poverty and family life, social welfare, public housing, child support and nonmarital childbearing.

Edin has written or co-written several books on single parenthood, and now has a book in press tentatively titled "Marginal Men: Fatherhood in the Lives of Low Income Unmarried Men."

Her current research projects include a study of the Earned Income Tax Credit allocation among low-income households in Boston and central Illinois.

The Sulzberger Distinguished Lecture Series, begun in 2006, is endowed by the Arthur Sulzberger Family.

For more information on Edin, go to http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/kathryn-edin.

The Center for Child and Family Policy, which is affiliated with the Social Science Research Institute and the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke, bridges the gap between research and public policy to improve the lives of children and families. For more information on the center, visit http://www.childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu/.