Where Are All the Kids?

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The year was 1958 and a small determined woman named Rita stared down the growing monster that was her once-loving husband's alcoholism. Sober Bob was affectionate a good dad and a hard worker. When he began drinking he would morph into someone unrecognizable someone terrifying.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It wasn't that Rita and Bob hadn't tried. Goodness knows they both had. But time after time the drink would win over and the violence would increase escalating until the day it all came crashing down once and for all.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Dutifully Catholic and thus told divorce is out of the question and desperately devoted to her children Rita embarks on a mission to break from the tradition of staying in an unsafe marriage and to save her family even if it means breaking them apart for a while. It's a mission she is determined to accomplish no matter the cost.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Where Are All the Kids?</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> author Teri Leonard Michaud lovingly and unflinchingly explores the dynamics of marriage family and addiction in a time when women were rarely given the option to stand on their own. Making this book even more engaging is the fact that it is based on a true story-that of the author's own family.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Beautifully written heart-wrenching and ultimately redemptive </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Where Are All the Kids?</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> will restore your faith in the human spirit and remind you that there is no power quite like that of a mother's love.</span></p><p><br></p>