My last book was about how families manage to deal with various kinds of challenging or unusual offspring, and one of the mothers I interviewed, who had two children with multiple severe disabilities, said to me, "People always give us these little sayings like, 'God doesn't give you any more than you can handle,' but children like ours are not preordained as a gift.
我上一本书讲的是家庭 如何应对各种让人伤脑筋的， 或不寻常的儿女们， 我访问了一位有两名 患有多重残疾的孩童的母亲， 她对我说：“人们总是给予我们 一些所谓的名言，例如 ‘上帝不会给你多过你能承载的’ 但是像我家这样的孩子 并不是天生就注定是份礼物。