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Sorry, Mum and Dad! Children no longer want

ONE of the great rewards of parenthood is seeing your children follow in you or your partner’s footsteps.

But children are no longer taking similar paths to their parents and are in fact often purposefully choosing a different route in life, new research shows.

According to findings from Ancestry.co.uk, just seven per cent of children today end up in the same job as their mother or father.

Indeed, children are three times more likely to choose a different career from their parents than to do something similar.

This is a sharp deviation from the Victorian era, when nearly half of children - 46 per cent – followed in their parents’ footsteps.

James Bond actor, Daniel Craig, knew from an early age he didn’t want to become a pub landlord or merchant seaman like his father, Tim Craig - or an art teacher like his mother, Olivia Craig.

But his interest in acting was encouraged from the early age of 6 by his parents - particularly his mother who would take him to classes at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre.

Actor Eddie Izzard trained as an accountant like his father Harold John Izzard, but left the University of Sheffield before finishing his course to pursue comedy.

And Olympic silver medallist and Strictly Come Dancing winner Louis Smith chose a vastly different career to his single-parent mother, Elaine Petch, who is a hairdresser.

Perhaps the most famous example is of course, grocer’s daughter, the late Margaret Thatcher.

UK Content Manager from Ancestry.co.uk, Miriam Silverman, said that parents today are more likely to want to see their children be more financially successful than them or to take on newer, more exciting roles.

  ‘In the 19th century, occupations were often dictated by social class.’ she said.

‘Consequently, children were much less likely to transcend the class that they were born into, to secure either a better paid or more highly skilled job and so replicated their parents’ careers instead.

‘From farmers to physicians, most of us will have at least one ‘family trade’ within our own family tree.’

The research compared historic census records with a new study, which examined the career choices people make and how their parents’ job influences their decision.

The decline of the ‘family trade’ has occurred as the number of careers we have to choose from has risen.



Route change: Comedian Eddie Izzard shunned an accountancy career despite training for one in it, just like his father

In the manufacturing-driven Victorian economy the number of recorded vocations stood in the hundreds – compared to the thousands of different job-types recorded in the 2011 census.

Today’s parents are also playing a part by pushing their children to pursue a different career, with 42 per cent actively not wanting their child to do the same job as them - compared to 11 per cent in favour.

The women’s suffrage movement is also identified within the research as a clear factor in broadening young women’s career opportunities in the early 20th century.

Before gender equality was advanced by this crusade, girls would have little choice but to follow in their mothers’ footsteps.

This is reflected in the 1861 census, where 75 per cent of girls would emulate their mother by going into domestic work or low-paying manual work.

By 1911 this situation had already improved, with this figure falling to 48 per cent.

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