ABSTRACT
This book brings together an international collection of research into fathers, sport and leisure. It has its origins in a themed issue of Leisure Studies journal published in 2006, which was the first collection of academic papers to focus on the role that leisure plays in men’s fathering. That collection is now expanded, updated and diversified and appears here in a rather different form, reflecting a more extensive array of research – into sport as well as leisure – than was available three years ago. Sport and leisure researchers therefore appear to be riding on a tide of interest in fathers and fatherhood. With so much mounting evidence that fathers place leisure at the heart of their parenting, they are ideally poised to contribute to understanding of contemporary fathering.
