Home Detention Home Detention is hilarious, real-life proof that opposite lifestyles can attract and survive the inevitable collision. Every parent, every child, every man and woman who has ever weathered (or not)a relationship will relate and laugh along with these often all-too-real family foibles. — Tim Rowland, an irresponsible and reclusive small-city news... more »paper pundit, was ripe for a mid-life crisis as he entered his 40s. Instead, he went in the opposite direction, trading in his world-traveling way and sports coupe for a permanent home and a full-sized pick-up. In short, he settled down. Yet settled is hardly the right word. Tim's new, occasionally unsettling family included an outgoing bride, her chatty pre-teen daughter and a hip roommate in her mid-twenties.« less