Fathering and Poverty

Anna Tarrant is Associate Professor at the University of Lincoln and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow.

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• 1. Introduction: Fathering, poverty, families and policy2. Low-income fatherhoods in historical and political context3. Theorising men’s participation in low-income families4. Supporting men in low- income contexts: practitioner observations5. Men’s caring arrangements and family trajectories6. Familial economic circumstances and provisioning practices7. Men’s family participation in low-income urban neighbourhoods8. Conclusion: Men’s family participation in low-income contexts