Meanwhile, the retarded son of the lady is killed when he is hit by a truck.

In retaliation, his victim's gang snatches Tenderness's young retarded son.

But because she was the only one to care for her 40-year-old retarded son, she was not able to get outside eye care.

"I, too, am the mother of a profoundly retarded son who does not speak," she wrote.

She was leading her retarded son, who looked dazed.

This play is about a lower middle class couple's struggle to adapt their lives around the needs of their mentally retarded son.

The story is about a father facing death, who strives to find money to send his grown, retarded son to an uncle in California.

Nicole sighed as she studied her retarded son in repose.

He lives halfway down a ravine with his wife and their 16-year-old mentally retarded son.