"For one jet-setting family... a three-month trip across Africa for two teenage children and their parents, who were joined by a tutor for the whole journey. Jack Ezon... said: “It’s a way to restart or refresh your life.... it is often when their kids are about to go on to college or high school, and they suddenly think ‘I need to really be spending time with them.’”"
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The Telegraph: "Gap years for the wealthiest 1 per cent as families show their children 'how real people live", Izzy Lyons (6 January 2019)
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