How important is family? It seems that for the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, is remarkably blasé about his own:
Gordon Brown's right-hand man is now his secretary of state for schools. His wife [Yvette Cooper] is also a government minister [for Housing]. How do they handle such demanding jobs while bringing up three young children?...
[H]is wife, MP for a neighbouring constituency, is also attending cabinet and that they juggle their lives between Yorkshire and north London and... their children, aged from three to eight, are at a stage that every parent knows is frantically demanding..." (The Guardian)
So it appears that the man who is supposed to be telling us how to manage our families is pretty much neglecting his own.[H]is wife, MP for a neighbouring constituency, is also attending cabinet and that they juggle their lives between Yorkshire and north London and... their children, aged from three to eight, are at a stage that every parent knows is frantically demanding..." (The Guardian)
Maybe Ed Balls should put down a few of the balls he is juggling. Having both he and his wife attending Cabinet is most certainly not going to be ideal for their family situation, and considering the amount of time that a political career requires, to have both of them doing it must cause a lack of time for their children. Since Balls' ministerial brief includes Children and Families, it seems ironic that he and his wife must be, considering their inevitable workload, pretty much neglecting theirs.
Source: The Guardian
