Defining a Good Life
What is our society’s contract with families of the severely disabled? November 2010
The Four Walls of My Freedom is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book that describes Donna Thomson’s first 21 years mothering a child with cerebral palsy, and it raises some important questions about the fundamental obligations of the state to provide for its most vulnerable citizens. Thomson’s book alternates between descriptions of the day-to-day reality of life with her son…