On the day that we meet, Thomas Beatie is looking forward to Father’s Day. His youngest, Jackson, has asked that the family play pickleball. For Beatie and his wife, it will be a distraction from organizing the backyard for their oldest child Susan’s upcoming Pokémon-themed 18th birthday party.
Welcome to Beatie’s very suburban life. Mild-mannered and likable, he runs a T-shirt printing company and lives with his esthetician wife, Amber, and their four children – Susan, 17, Jenson, 16, Austin, 14 and Jackson, eight – in a pretty, split-level house in an unremarkable subdivision in Phoenix, Arizona.
They are, Beatie says, ‘just
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