This concluding chapter draws together the theoretical debates raised by the empirical data in relation to divisions of labour around practices of caring and gendered constructions of responsibilities. The intention in this book has been to provide a more precise focus on a group of men's individual and collective practices and their emerging paternal identities in contrast to broader brush-stroke approaches (Hearn et al., 2006). This focus has revealed a greater degree of commitment to, and daily practices of, emotionally engaged, hands-on caring by fathers, but in circumstances which can confound the best of intentions, and reinforce or enable more recognisably traditional patterns of care. The participants' fathering responsibilities are claimed, denied, narrated and unfold in tender and loving and sometimes difficult and challenging ways. Their experiences are similar and varied (just like those of new mothers) and significantly the men's practices of caring can sometimes overlap with what new mothers do, in what is a new and foreign terrain for both men and women.