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Sto caricando le informazioni... Another place at the table (originale 2003; edizione 2004)di Kathy Harrison
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Kathy's Harrison's memoir of her life as a foster parent to over one hundred children is at times funny, sad, and heart-wrenching, but always completely honest. She is honest about her own failures and weaknesses, about the difficulty in fostering troubled children, about the many shortcomings of the foster care system, and about the tremendous need each child in that system has for a loving, attentive family. She sugarcoats nothing, yet manages to show the reader each sweet, loving, unique child she took in under the labels of "abused," "troubled" and "mentally ill." Selected Reading Questionnaire. This glimpse into foster care enlivens my heart to a multi-paradox: In reading thine parts of intersecting lives I experience: terror, anger,and pity juxtaposed by love, humor and hope. At all of my empathy and sympathy struggles to contain, forcing to read and consider though tears, both visible and invisible. For all these God must continue to intervene--I must borrow, among other things, his mercy and empathy. This memoir tells it like it is. Kathy Harrison does not sugar coat anything she has seen or has felt and as a reader we can see and feel what she has lived through and for. This book let's us into a world few of us understand. It opens our eyes and our hearts to those who take in children and who really do care for each of them. It is definitely one of my favorites. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
The startling and ultimately uplifting narrative of one woman's thirteen-year experience as a foster parent. For more than a decade, Kathy Harrison has sheltered a shifting cast of troubled youngsters-the offspring of prostitutes and addicts; the sons and daughters of abusers; and teenage parents who aren't equipped for parenthood. All this, in addition to raising her three biological sons and two adopted daughters. What would motivate someone to give herself over to constant, largely uncompensated chaos? For Harrison, the answer is easy. Another Place at the Table is the story of life at our social services' front lines, centered on three children who, when they come together in Harrison's home, nearly destroy it. It is the frank first-person story of a woman whose compassionate best intentions for a child are sometimes all that stand between violence and redemption. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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We all hear horror stories of foster care in the news and they seem so far removed from our everyday lives, but it is Kathy's normal. I appreciated her honesty and her fairness in assessing the children, the birth and foster parents, the professionals, and the system in general. She is quick to point out the bad, as well as the good. She is humble and gracious, and forthright about her own failings.
I would recommend this book to any prospective foster parents who want to know what really goes on in the system; and also believe anyone who knows a foster parent or child could benefit from reading it, for a better understanding of the other individual's circumstances.
Update 9/28/20: I just finished reading this for the second time, and it's just as good as it was the first time around. I did notice a few curse words and typos this time, but honestly, the book as a whole is so good that I still feel it deserves five stars! ( )