Product Description: It is not easy raising a family and balancing work and personal commitments in academia, regardless of gender. Parents endure the stress of making tenure with the demands of life with children. While women's careers are derailed more often than men's as a result of such competing pressures, fathers, too, experience conflicting feelings about work and home, making parenting ever more challenging...read more

Traces the development of a non-verbal, autistic, and badly abused six-year-old foster child who throughout the years following his adoption was able to attend and earn high marks at regular school while reconnecting with his sister, in an account told from the boy's perspective.