About this time of year, college students are getting their things together for a return to campus.
For those going for the first time, their parents are preparing themselves for daily life without a son or daughter.
Steve Eddy is a West Lafayette native. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in political science from Purdue University and makes his living teaching social studies. He and his wife, Mary, are raising three sons—two teens and one near-teen—who desperately wish to remain anonymous.