DOORWAY TO HEARTBREAK PATH TO HOPE is the true story about tumultuous adoption. Mental illness, retardation, misfortune, incest and pedophilia - unbelievable, deviously stigmatized and frequently unbearable, the family, while hurt deeply, remains steadfast. Relying on instinct, trial and error, faith and a steady sense of humor, much of their technique was blessed by kindly social workers, sincere adoption advocates and the most grandiloquent of bureaucrats. Much was not. Narrated by the father, reflecting on his often questionable style, the calming influence of his endearing wife is a strongly emotional standard. Despite the pain inflicted, the inherent goodness of one adoptee becomes evident. Undeniable mystery envelopes the other. The family enjoys the best our social, legal and health care systems offer. Others failed them, many times. No one was ever held accountable. What do you do when it all turns disappointing and dangerous? How do you reconcile to the blessing that adoption is meant to be? How are adoptive families to be encouraged? There was no instruction manual. This adventure serves as one, haunting but resolute in description, hopeful to the last.