After his 17-year-old son died in a car crash, questions haunted attorney Timothy Hollister in the months that followed. He wondered whether he had been a good parent. He wondered whether he had struck the right balance between giving his teen son protection and freedom.
Reid Hollister, described as a rambunctious, handsome and sometimes rebellious teen, died in 2006, when the car he was driving crashed into a guardrail on Interstate 84 in Plainville. “In the months after he passed, I read many grief books for bereaved parents, and they were all about bereavement, but not about parenting,” said Hollister, a partner at Shipman & Goodwin in Hartford. “I was concerned about whether I had been a good father.”
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