Parenting is hard. When parents have a child with any type of disability, it compounds the challenge, tests the character of a parent, and their ability to keep the needs of their child in the forefront of their decision. Parenting adult children with disabilities is also challenging.

It was two nights before Christmas when a 17-year-old invited three friends to his house to hang out. The friends arrived. The teen showed his friends his new pistol.

Parents have a range of emotions when they send their daughters off to college. School shootings are a real fear. Campus security is a real concern. However, they might not be aware of the increasing number of men whose loneliness leads them to violence.

Were they friends? The 41-year-old man and the 88-year-old woman. He said they were.

I’m sure that, like me, you know someone who becomes an angry drunk when they’ve consumed too much alcohol. It may be a factor in this true crime.

Thankfully, I don’t know how it feels to lose a child to an act of violence. I imagine it ranks close to the worst possible life-altering event.

It had mostly been a normal Thanksgiving holiday for a blended family of six—mother (55), father (61), three adult daughters, and one...