A memoir that is simultaneously intensely personal and universal. It exposes how the vulnerable are short changed by the "systems" in our society. For example, the injustices that take place daily in our legal system. The educational system with its low expectation of far too many children. The health care system that misdiagnoses a patient. And the welfare system that degrades the broken person even further. The very "systems" that are supposed to be "helping" people--far too often cause more harm then good--and, in turn causes more harm to our entire society. Dancing Around the Cracks is...