Life without Fatherhood

Hadley, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4254-7648 (2015) Life without Fatherhood. In: insideMAN Pioneering stories about men and boys. Troubador Publishing Ltd, Kibworth Beauchamp, pp. 62-64. ISBN 9781784625337

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Abstract

This book is a step in that direction. InsideMAN combines powerful first-person stories from everyday men on the street, with insightful writing from some of highest-profile journalists currently addressing men’s issues in the UK. In my research, I have been honoured to interview men in the UK about their experiences of wanting to be a ‘Dad’. All the meetings have been moving and reflected some aspect of my own thoughts and feelings regarding not becoming a father – a status so easily achieved and important that it can’t usually be talked about. What do the men say? Well quite, a lot and I can just give a flavour of the depth and range that the impact of male involuntary childlessness has had on them.