Resigning in order 'to spend more time with my family' seems a peculiarly British phenomenon, or peculiarly British rhetoric, since the essence of the thing is that nobody believes it. Ever since Norman Fowler departed Margaret Thatcher's cabinet, ostensibly in order to play Mousetrap and Junior Scrabble with the little Fowlers, it has been assumed that any such justification is no more than a euphemism for deep ideological rifts or personal fallings-out in government. That may very often be the case. Americans, interestingly, are much more likely to announce - even if the context is frankly absurd, like the brink of an election - that they are giving up to take on 'a fresh new challenge', even when it's pretty clear that a drink problem or a call-girl scandal is just about to hit the front pages of the Herald-Examiner or the...
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