This book explores the lives of several individuals who were able to overcome hardships and excel professionally. The authors believe that, through the lives of these individuals, the reader can learn to help others overcome life circumstances.
Introduction
Surviving and Succeeding After the Death of Both Parents
Growing Up in Foster Care
Growing Up in a Single-Female Headed Household
Succeeding Despite Parental Divorce
Succeeding Despite a Learning Disability
An Adolescent Parent Succeeding Despite the Odds
Abandoning a Delinquent Lifestyle to Become Successful
Why Some Children Succeed Despite the Odds
WARREN A. RHODES is Professor of Psychology, Delaware State
College./e He is the co-editor of Why Some Children Succeed Despite
the Odds (Praeger, 1991).
KIM HOEY is a freelance writer.
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