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portada Counting Down: A Memoir of Foster Parenting and Beyond
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2018
Language
English
Pages
256
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780821422977
Edition No.
1
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Counting Down: A Memoir of Foster Parenting and Beyond

Deborah Gold (Author) · Ohio Univ Pr · Paperback

Counting Down: A Memoir of Foster Parenting and Beyond - Deborah Gold

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Synopsis "Counting Down: A Memoir of Foster Parenting and Beyond "

When Deborah Gold and her husband signed up to foster parent in their rural mountain community, they did not foresee that it would lead to a roller-coaster fifteen years of involvement with a traumatized yet resilient birth family. They fell in love with Michael (a toddler when he came to them), yet they had to reckon with the knowledge that he could leave their lives at any time.In Counting Down, Gold tells the story of forging a family within a confounding system. We meet social workers, a birth mother with the courage to give her children the childhood she never had herself, and a father parenting from prison. We also encounter members of a remarkable fellowship of Appalachian foster parents—gay, straight, right, left, evangelical, and atheist—united by love, loss, and quality hand-me-downs.Gold’s memoir is one of the few books to deliver a foster parent’s perspective (and, through Michael’s own poetry and essays, that of a former foster child). In it, she shakes up common assumptions and offers a powerfully frank and hopeful look at an experience often portrayed as bleak.

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