Fathering Through Sport and Leisure

Today's fathers are responding to new expectations about fathering: the remote father of the past has faded and men are now expected to be 'involved' fathers who actively engage with their children. Most turn to leisure and sport to do this, yet in the areas of family studies and men's studies, the leisure component of family life is under-played. This book provides a long overdue and thorough investigation of the relationship between fatherhood, sport and leisure.

Tess Kay is Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Institute of Youth Sport at Loughborough University, one of the largest research centres dedicated to the study of young people, sport and leisure.