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Examines the impact of diversity on families, focusing on parenting children with physical and mental disabilities, child prodigies, children conceived in rape, children who become criminals, and transgender children. The author writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, or multiple severe disabilities. While each of these characteristics is potentially isolating, the experience of difference within families is universal, and Solomon documents triumphs of love over prejudice in every chapter. Parents of handicapped children United States. Identity (Psychology). | |