How do circumstances alter decisions or lives? In the prior volume, The Would-be Lives of Adam Back, we saw Adam, his decisions and his life under two sets of broadly different conditions. In the first, status quo, Adam was the man he was born and raised to be. He turned out as he was always going to, given the individual he was. In the second, after governmental upheaval and subsequent war, Adam had to adapt or perish. A nascent individual emerged, one he, himself, likely did not know lay dormant. He forged a life for himself and his family appropriate to the new state of affairs. Which was the real, the actual, Adam Back?Now it's four years later. Adam recedes into the background. His oldest and youngest take up the tale – the tale of the Back family. How did their father's decisions influence his children's psyches and mindsets? How did they develop? Which had the greater impact – Adam's choices or the world his kids found themselves in? Are the two linked?The Offspring of Adam Back continues Adam's tale through the eyes of his progeny. It's told in two halves – as things would have been and as they actually were. The children, too, have had to adapt, not only to the world around them, but to whichever father they found themselves with. How would you and yours have turned out?