When being perfect is just too much: Britain's superdads start to blow a fuse Men who hold down demanding jobs while trying to be perfect parents could be at risk of Atlas Syndrome. Jonathan Thompson on the perils of trying to have it all

The Independent on Sunday | August 24, 2003| | Copyright

They've all been labelled "superdads": David Beckham, Bob Geldof, Jamie Oliver, even Tony Blair. For years the phenomenon of the devoted, hands-on father, as epitomised in Tony Parsons's novel Man and Boy, has been held up as the pinnacle of male parenting.

But now the pressure is starting to show. Thirty- and forty- something males, it appears, are increasingly struggling to cope with the daily grind of trying to be perfect - not just at work but also at home.

A leading British psychiatrist at the Priory Clinic, the highly respected hospital favoured by celebrities needing treatment for ...

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