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Negotiating Fatherhood

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This book has considered the context and concept of fathering, the relationship between fathers and their children, how fathers construct their role in negotiation with mothers, and how fathering is practiced in diverse family contexts and experienced by different family members. It has done this by applying these experiences to a sport case study.

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    Street Child United (SCU) aims to ‘change the way the world sees and treats street-connected children’. Since 2010, they have organised the Street Child World Cup (SCWC) ahead of the FIFA Football World Cup, using the ‘power of football’ and the arts to raise awareness and tackle the widespread stigma faced by street-connected children—aiming to inspire countries, governments and communities to better protect, respect and support them. In addition to the three World Cups they also held the Street Child Games in Rio in 2016. In May 2019, the UK will hold the first Street Child Cricket World Cup (SCCWC). For more information see https://www.streetchildunited.org/our-sports-events/street-child-cricket-world-cup-2019/.

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    For example, The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/what-we-do/childrens-rights/united-nations-convention-of-the-rights-of-the-child.

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Fletcher, T. (2020). Conclusions. In: Negotiating Fatherhood. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19784-1_9

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