ISBN: 0-88739-361-6
112 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 2/2002
Paperback Original
Price: $13.95
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Letters to Daniel
William Roth
With his son Daniel recently departed for college, Professor William Roth sets out to tell him everything he might have forgotten or neglected or avoided telling him in their years together as father and son. The resulting letters constitute a philosophical examination of the intersection between parenting, politics, ethics and family, and a poignant parental coming-of-age story.
William Roth explores the affects on his parenting of his own physical disability, with him since birth; of his relationship with his Holocaust-surviving parents; of the life-threatening cancer he overcame when Daniel was nine; of his divorce from Daniel's mother; and of Daniel's own unique character. As a member of the Carnegie Council on Children, Roth is well-versed in theories about children and families. But, as he points out in Letters to Daniel, there is a big difference between the theories and the facts of parenting.
Parents and young people alike will find words of wisdom in these letters of appreciation and ethical instruction from father to son.
Bio: WILLIAM ROTH is a professor in the College of Public Affairs and Policy at State University of New York at Albany. He is the author of a number of books about issues relating to disabled persons, including The Handicapped Speak, and has directed documentary films about a range of subjects for public television.
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