I know nothing is as it seems, that's why I ask the question. Certainly I'm not thinking anything to do with affluence.
The father is a distinguished mathematician and the mother's older brother is emeritus professor at
University of Birmingham He's a physicist. In Hamburg, he helped develop detectors for the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Geneva and was involved in the
ATLAS experiment which discovered the
Higgs boson. Yet at least one son is anti-science, in his late 40's. Not a teenager in rebellion but an adult in his late 40's by now. That's some pretty heavy rebellion going on there. Long lasting rejection of parental values.