Dads and ‘dandelions’: How military families make it work

Dads and ‘dandelions’: How military families make it work

Read: 5 min Six weeks after his first child was born, Paul Hook deployed to Afghanistan. “I missed six months of her doing all the first things that I would never get to see again,” said Hook, who was a lieutenant in the Canadian Armed Forces at the time. Three years later, in 2008, Hook decided to take a different approach with his second child. He informed his superior he “was going to take four or five months of parental leave, because I was …