JASON PARROTT
"If I hadn't become a dad I would have ended up in prison," admits Jason Parrott, who was excluded from school at the age of 15 and has been in and out of Borstal-type institutions most of his life.
Jason, who works as a parking attendant, lives with his wife Gemma and two-year-old son Samuel, in Loughton, Essex. He says: "I had a bad background and upbringing. I have never seen my dad regularly and because of that it has made me more determined to be there for Samuel."
When the couple found out that Gemma was pregnant, they were in shock. "We were thinking of having children but Gemma was only 17. She had been on the pill but when she came off we were told that it could take six months for her to get pregnant because of the pill. But she got pregnant straightaway," he says.
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