Men and choice
Since I have to rewrite my PP book completely (a difficult verdict to swallow from a publisher, but one I now recognise as correct), I've been doing some further interviews, or conversations as I prefer to think of them . My latest respondent described to me the remarkable case of her father, a senior engineer who chose to leave his job and be the main parent for his four girls, while his wife took up her career as a teacher. This was not for financial reasons - the father would have earned more, even though the mother ended up a headteacher- - but simply because the couple decided that…
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