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Loading... Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk: A Caseworker's Story (edition 1998)by Marc Parent, Anna Quindlen (foreword)
Work InformationTurning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk by Marc Parent
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Intense. ( ) This is the heartbreaking telling of Marc Parent's 4-year job at New York's Emergency Children's Services office during the mid-1990's. He includes eight detailed stories of going out "into the field" to help children and families in dire situations. He and his partners must decide: do we leave the child or take the child? Sometimes there's no right answer. This was very difficult to read but eye-opening, even though we hear awful stories fairly often nowadays. Some of those stories seem kind of general, whereas this was very specific. However, I did like that Mr. Parent ended the book with a positive note that he thinks some of the services for families/children in these situations are getting better and more available. He also adds that we seem to hear about more of these stories every day, but not just in the cities. This happens all over the country. As I said before, difficult to read, and I don't know that I recommend it, but we should probably all read it. no reviews | add a review
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In a book that is “at once heart-wrenching and heart-warming” (Kirkus Reviews), Parent, a social worker in New York City, recounts his most desperate cases and life on the front lines in the battle to help abused children. “A revelatory and affirmative work, a grace note played against the darkest passages of family life” (Newsday). Foreword by Anna Quindlen. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)362.768092Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Social problems of & services to groups of people Child welfare Sexual AbuseLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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