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Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk: A Caseworker's Story (edition 1998)

by Marc Parent, Anna Quindlen (foreword)

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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.… (more)
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Title:Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk: A Caseworker's Story
Authors:Marc Parent
Other authors:Anna Quindlen (foreword)
Info:Ballantine Books (1998), Edition: 1st Ballantine Books ed, Paperback, 400 pages
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  Tosta | Jul 5, 2021 |
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. ( )
  TerriS | Jan 17, 2016 |
I thought this was fascinating and insightful. Each of the stories was touching and I felt like I had a true view of what his job was like and what he was experiencing. I only wish I knew what happened later. The metaphor of turning stones was also a valuable one that will stick with me. ( )
  the1butterfly | Jun 12, 2012 |
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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.

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