Sharing the load: Fathering in the new age

Jaron James is refreshingly candid about his reaction to his wife's suggestion that they should share parental leave after the birth of their second child. "I had a very negative response to it, instantly. I thought it would be such hard work and I just wasn't that up for it. I was dreading telling my boss about it and kept thinking, how would it affect my career?"A change in his circumstances at work as a museum photographer, however, left the 41-year-old with "no really good reason to say no"...