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Fathering Practices, Sport and Children

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The third empirical chapter addresses the relationships between fathers and their children in and beyond the context of sport. Within this framework, fathering practices can be seen as the ways in which men ‘do’ and perform their duties as fathers, while also negotiating wider discourses pertaining to fathers, masculinity and intimacy. This chapter builds on some of the arguments related to good fathering practices in the previous chapter. Where the previous chapter discussed the participants’ aspirations for and philosophies of fatherhood and fathering practices, this chapter focuses more on father-child relationships and seeks to explore the significance and impact of sport on those relationships.

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    For a discussion of father involvement in youth sport, see Magee (2018) and Brown (2018).

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    This is not to say that fathers and daughters might not compete together. However, most sport in the UK is gender-segregated which means opportunities for fathers and daughters to compete together are constrained (see Channon et al., 2016).

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Fletcher, T. (2020). Fathering Practices, Sport and Children. In: Negotiating Fatherhood. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19784-1_5

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