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Exchange Exemplar: "Far From The Tree"

WiLPrZ, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40528832

The kids we get are not necessarily the kids we expected. 

Nature has a way of making changes in the family tree.  Andrew Solomon talked to hundreds of people in families where the children were born in a variety of circumstances... with disabilities or other differences from the parents. 

How parents and society cope is the focus of Solomon's book .  He visited in 2013, and we revisit that interview here. 

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the ÀÏ·ò×Ó´«Ã½ Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.