Anna Tarrant is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lincoln and UK Research & Innovation Future Leaders Fellow (2020–24). Her work examines men’s family participation in low-income families. She is author of Fathering and Poverty (2021). Linzi Ladlow is a Research Fellow at the University of Lincoln, working on the Following Young Fathers Further study. Her research interests include young parenthood, families, housing, and disadvantage.Laura Way is Research Fellow at the University of Lincoln, working on the Following Young Fathers Further study. Her research interests include ageing, gender and the lifecourse, youth culture, creative methods, and punk pedagogies. Laura is the author of Punk, Gender and Ageing. Just Typical Girls? (2020).

• 1. Introduction: men and welfare in contemporary viewPART 1: Men, gender divisions, welfare, and socio-historical change2. Young men and young masculinities: a transnational dialogue3. Parenting and patriarchy in the pandemic4. Men, work, and care in the UK in the wake of COVID-195. Men beneficiaries of housing and/or trapped in Greek family welfarePART 2: Fathering and diversity: a welfare lens in international perspective6. ‘I have a hard time not worrying about my son’: an intersectional analysis of men’s narratives on the meaning and the practice of full-time fatherhood in the United States7. Being a father and a refugee: new social worlds of welfare and integration8. Divorced fathers in Sweden: changed models of parenting and fatherhood9. Unmarried fathers and shared parenting in ireland and beyond: a matter of justice or care?PART 3: Contexts for addressing men’s welfare10. Absence of value: masculinity, disability, social class and alternative provision11. Male victims of sexual violence and their welfare in the criminal justice system12. ‘You’re a number, you’re not a person’: the experiences of welfare protocols for men experiencing mental distress13. 'A man in an intimate relationship – between the uncompromising and the permissive': men's social position and willingness to stay in an unsatisfactory intimate relationship14. A systemic perspective on father engagement with child- and family-related social work interventions in Israel15. No room to change? fatherhood, masculinities and child welfarePART 4: Men and their welfare across the lifecourse16. Men’s welfare beyond the state: working fathers’ experiences of childcare within the family in Soviet Ukraine17. Loneliness and men’s welfare across the lifecourse: aligning approaches with masculinity, friendships, and relationships18. Social participation and social support practices of older men from minoritised ethnic groups: lessons for social isolation and loneliness initiatives19. Caring, old age, and masculinities: men’s experiences of caring and maintaining social connections in later life