Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Children and YouthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adoption
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
Adoption and Foster Care, 1975
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Children and YouthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adoption
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
The Moon to Play With
Author: Wendy KarasinPublisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1452523886
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This inspirational memoir travels one womans road to generational adulthood as she resists, then embraces, her parents aging and eventual deaths. Wendy Karasins descriptive passages offer readers the opportunity to experience the normalcy and enormity of what happens in her life. As Wendy is pushed into a caregiving role that grows exponentially, she must surrender to an inability to alter her parents fate. Her pain morphs from engagement to acceptance, and ultimately compassion. The experiences that unravel her also transform her. With seventy-nine million baby boomers and forty million seniors, the imperative requirement for conscious end-of-life conversation has arrived. The Moon To Play With is more than the memoir of the authors loss of both parents. Beautifully written, Wendy Karasin shares the sensitive transition to true adulthoodas defined by the moment when one is no longer anyones child. Wendy gracefully takes us on her journey with the understanding that this path is one we all walk at some point. She writes with emotional transparency, and without the triteness that can accompany a subject so sensitive. Wendy Karasins story is that of a universal experience, told with grace and soul." Mimi Krumholz, Waiting for the Karma Truck
The Joy of Believing
Author: Eva Leigh BaileyPublisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1638853924
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
This book is a message meant to give as much encouragement to all who are in the midst of trials and challenges. This book will show you what the Lord can do if we only believe and put our trust in Him. If we practice these things, we will welcome His rescue. Life will always be full of joy and challenges and disappointments. If you look to our Lord, you will see what He will do, no matter the circumstances, to bring you to a better place with a better understanding of His power. Lean on Him; His yoke is easy.
Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts
Author: Drugs in Institutions: Interstate placement and traffic in children and their drugging
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile DelinquencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drug abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Family Secrets
Author: Gloria González-LópezPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479866172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
“My breasts stopped growing when my grandfather touched them,” confides ‘Elisa’, a young woman who recounts the traumatic incest and sexual abuse she experienced in childhood. In Family Secrets, Gloria González-López tells the life stories of 60 men and women in Mexico who, like Elisa, saw their lives irrevocably changed in the wake of childhood and adolescent incest. In Mexico, a patriarchal, religious society where women are expected to make themselves sexually available to men and where same-sex experiences for both men and women bring great shame, incest is easily hidden, seldom discussed, and rarely reported to authorities. Through gripping, emotional narrative, González-López brings the deeply troubling, hidden, and unspoken issues of incest and sexual violence in Mexican families to light. González-López contends that family and cultural structures in Mexican life enable incest and the culture of silence that surrounds it. She examines the strong bonds of familial obligation between parents and children, brothers and sisters, and elders and youth that, in the case of incest, can morph into sexual obligation; the codes of honor and shame reinforced by tradition and the Church, discouraging openness about sexual violence and trauma; the double standards of morality and stereotypes about sexuality that leave girls and women and gender nonconforming boys and men especially vulnerable to sexual abuse. Together, these cultural factors create a perfect storm for generations upon generations of unspoken incest, a cycle that takes great courage and strength to heal from and overcome. A riveting account, Family Secrets turns a feminist and sociological lens on a disturbing trend that has gone unnoticed for far too long.
Sunbeams
Author: Drugs in institutions
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile DelinquencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drug abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Turbulent Tunnel
Author: Jenn ShellPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491758228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Without any doubt, Lisa Diamond knows that she and her high school sweetheart, Johnny, share a true and eternal love. Life is a paradise filled with love, hope, and the promise of forever in Johnnys arms. But life has different plans for her heart and her future. Driven apart by circumstances and teenage pride, she marries Michael, the new love of her life at seventeen. Inspired by the hopeful new dreams of a new bride, she looks forward to forever at Michaels side. How quickly life can change. Due to a devastating car accident shortly after the wedding, Lisa now lingers in a nonresponsive vegetative state in a hospital bed. No one knows that within her motionless body, her mind still races in fear and pain, in love and longing, and between hope and hopelessness. Five years later, there is little reason for optimism. Lisas devoted husband, faced with his greatest, heartbreaking life challenge, ponders an impossible choice: Is it time to let her go? Trapped alone in the darkness, Lisa has only her memories for company. Johnny is never far from her heart, even as her husband is ironically never far from her side. Michael struggles with his own demons, doubts, and needs. His friend Annette refuses to be the reason to end his marriage, despite its current state. Life, as the grieving husband has come to learn, is complicated. Will heartbreak drive him to a decision he will forever regret? Only time will tell.
Mothers and Daughters
Author: Ann F. CaronPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 080505149X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
An upbeat, positive exploration of their relationship that mothers and daughters can share without feeling that it is an expression of criticism.