Why more men are putting their children ahead of their careers
As Dan Jarvis declines to enter the Labour leader race because he wants to be there for his children – Harry Wallop talks to other men on the 'daddy track' who are putting their families first
There is already one winner to have emerged from
the race to be the next Labour leader: Dan Jarvis. The 42-year-old, despite his
relative inexperience, was a leading candidate. Not only is he ruggedly
telegenic, he has an arresting back story: an ex-Para, decorated for his
service in Iraq and Afghanistan, his wife died five years ago, leaving him to
bring up his two young children. He remarried in 2013 and has had another
child.
But within days of the election catastrophe for
Labour he announced he would not stand. “'My eldest kids had a very tough time
when they lost their mum and I don't want them to lose their dad. I need some
space for them, my wife and our youngest child right now, and I wouldn't have
it as leader.”
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