Abstract
In the first of three chapters that analyse men’s accounts of their family participation across the lifecourse, we consider the diversity and dynamics of men’s family participation in relation to their roles as partners/husbands and fathers. To do this, we draw on and advance our multigenerational analytic framework and develop longitudinal cases of these men’s family experiences from their own perspectives, examining the diversity and range of their family participation from different generational positions. In so doing, we identify the changing importance and limits of the breadwinner model through longitudinal place-based poverty, and the associated challenges for people to secure work and sustain family when navigating such conditions.
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In the QSA stage of her Men, Poverty and Care study, Victor’s interviews confirmed and supported the new questions Anna was bringing to the existing data, and additionally served as a catalyst for a new range of questions. It was precisely these policy framings that the Men, Poverty and Care study sought to address empirically as a distinctive analytical departure from the concerns of the original Midlife Grandparents study team. Victor’s case has also been analysed and noted in several publications already, albeit for different purposes and to make different theoretical and methodological arguments (Tarrant, 2017; Tarrant & Hughes, 2020; Tarrant, 2021).
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This is now known as the Child Maintenance Service.
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These findings build out of analyses by the original Accessing Socially Excluded and Midlife Grandparents study teams.
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Hughes, K., Tarrant, A. (2023). Men as Fathers and Providers. In: Men, Families, and Poverty. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24922-8_5
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