Between Past and Future: A Field Guide for Fathers Overseas

Director, teamleader, dean, large-system consultant, from decades in several South Asian countries and organisational settings this father distills key episodes in having and bringing up three children in new places: births and an adoption, schools, making and leaving friends, crises, building a house to anchor the family, culture shock in reverse when moving "back" West. All while father is absorbed in work and ensuring career and income long-term. A Danish cross-cultural psychologist long practicing in China confirmed that these issues commonly trouble expatriate fathers. The children's comments throughout- a most unusual feature - add inter-generational depths to this actual up-down story of a father managing intriguing work along with family life which ends with special guidelines for fathers on the move.