A physically abused boy with emotional problems is adopted at the age of three.
At a crucial stage where both father and son are pleading for help, the MH System does not even ret.
Adolescence brings violence, substance abuse, inappropriate sexual advances, and turns in and out of placements.
In school learning takes a back seat to behavior management.
Indications that the boy is brain-damaged are ignored for many years.
However, the boy is continuously misdiagnosed as ADHD with the solution being to try another medication.
It is clear from the beginning that Christopher has emotional problems, and the author seeks help.
Staring when the boy was four, the author writes of his efforts to raise his son by himself.
And just when readers have thought it couldn\'t get any worse, there is a twist at the end that is beyond belief.
Physically abused at the age of one and a half by his own biological father, the subject of this book commits physical abuse to an infant twenty-one years later with fatal consequences.
The failure of the System in the case of the author\'s son has disastrous results.
The MH System appears as bureaucratic maze of incompetence and callousness more interested in collecting insurance payments and protecting itself from liability than in assisting others.
There is an astonishing level of detail taken from reports, evaluations, and the author\'s own journal entries, as he records his frustration, heartbreak, as well as a fair amount of humor.
Part biography, part social commentary, and part cold case, a compelling tale of the author\'s descent into his son\'s problems and the madness of the perpetual dysfunction of the country\'s Mental Health system.
Despite the best efforts of his father to assist him, the boy enters the perpetual dysfunction of the American Mental Health System and continues in a downward spiral from childhood to young adulthood until the cycle of physical abuse come full circle with tragic outcomes for both the boy and a new-born infant.
A physically abused boy with emotional problems is adopted at the age of three
