Par­ents con­tains two sep­a­rate sto­ries:

Care and Com­fort tells of an anguished wid­ow­er grap­pling with a parental night­mare when his young son is shot. What he learns about his late wife and his child will for­ev­er change him.

The shock­ing dis­cov­ery that her teenage son is hid­ing a dress is detailed in A Mother’s Jour­nal, as she strug­gles to under­stand the truth about her child, and slow­ly accepts and helps the tran­si­tion to a bet­ter future for both.