Foreword

Foreword

‘Arthur is seriously brain-damaged and unable to develop normally.’ This was what Frances Young was told when Arthur was a few months old. Frances, then a mother with her first child, now a Methodist minister and former Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology in the University of Birmingham, tells her story from this stark beginning up to today. Arthur was born in 1967, severely brain-damaged, unable to learn to do anything for himself and consequently dependent on other people for his every need…