Above all else, growing up with a vicar as a dad, or at least growing up with my dad who was a vicar I learnt to be compassionate and diplomatic. His job did mean my brothers and I were expected to actively participate in church life but that was just an hour a week and it was quite fun. The hardest part of being the vicars’ child is people not realising that your parents don’t just work on Sundays. I’ve always enjoyed telling people I meet that both my parents are vicars and hearing the “Oh... What’s that like?” or the usual “I thought priests couldn’t get married”. I have talked to many other vicar’s children who feel and think the same way as I do.

Source: The Guardian July 21, 2016 06:00 UTC