When we begin to feel that materialism just couldn't be "all there is," we start looking beyond it for meaning. But, as this writer discovered, the real meaning of life is not beyond our reach.
Families climbing atop the Berlin Wall, a young man facing a tank in China, children carrying machine guns in Latin America, and the Gulf War—the list goes on.
Even if home and family haven't been the happiest place, each one of us still yearns for the love that fathering and mothering represent. This author explores some of her lessons about true parenthood.