There Are No Children Here: an analytical essay of the book and about the author writing style.

Alex Kotlowitz does an amazing job of presenting the Horner homes as they were and allowing the reader to come to his or her own conclusions about what the problems were and what should have been done about them. You never get the feeling that he is trying to make his reader feel sorry for the Horner residents, or that he has some political agenda that he hopes his reader will adopt. I don't remember …

…I always have felt that I can trust police officers to keep us safe and protected, but now I can see that there are some out there who are crooked. And the fact that the police and the ATF refusing to discuss and inform Craig's family about what really happened, upsets me even more. It seems like they were trying to cover up all there wrong doings and by being mute would make people forget.