Father to Son: A Chronicle of Your Life Before Birth

This chronicle is what one father wrote for his son, offering a world of personal
information about himself, his wife, and his culture embracing the courtship, conception, and important events of
pregnancy leading to his birth in the late 1960s. The Editor sought this story in the hope it would inspire other
fathers and mothers to share similar priceless information with their own offspring about their common life
before birth. Thirty years ago, long before the days of computers and CD’s, driveby shootings and AIDS, there
was a country where people had children but rarely discussed childbirth. It was a violent land, though
sugarcoated by ignorance and tradition. But it was not so unpleasant. Your mother and I had much to make us
feel alive: Beatles songs, televised space shots, good food, TV sports, airplane rides, and each other’s
companionship.