This is a family tale that in all likelihood you will find highly unusual. Aside from some parental history, the time period generally covers from 1946 through to the year of 1962. I grew up in a seemingly standard mother and father family of six boys and one adopted girl. But family life was anything but the staid "Father Knows Best" or "Donna Reed Show" role model families that kids of my 1950's generation grew up watching on television. For...