Single fathers raising families alone

The struggles facing single mothers are well documented, but what of men left to raise families alone? The Telegraph talks to four single fathers.
One day, which, at first, seemed like any other, Bob Greig, 45, came home from work to discover that his wife of seven years had left him.

'Crazy though it sounds, I had no idea that anything was wrong,' he says. 'Yes, we'd been arguing a bit, but nothing major. Now here I was, alone with my two young daughters and our world turned upside-down. I was devastated.'

Greig admits that the first few days were 'torturous', while he tried to make sense of his situation. Forced to put his job as a property manager on hold, Greig took over the running of his home. 'Up until that point my wife had taken care of the girls and now suddenly it was all down to me. To say it was traumatic was an understatement.'

Six years later and Greig's life has changed irrevocably. He's since had to give up his job, and most of his day is spent knuckling down to the treadmill of single parenthood, while dealing with his daughters' confused emotions.

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