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

Counting Down - A Memoir of Foster Parenting and Beyond (Hardcover)

Deborah Gold

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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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Imprint: Ohio University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2018
First published: 2017
Authors: Deborah Gold
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-2296-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > Adoption & fostering
Books > Biography > General
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LSN: 0-8214-2296-0
Barcode: 9780821422960

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