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Title: Turning Stones : My Days and Nights with Children at RiskA Caseworker's Story by Marc Parent ISBN: 0-449-91235-3 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (174 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Lost Voices: Marc Parent's Turning Stones
Comment: Children scream out at night. Rarely is there an answer to their cries. That is the idea that author Marc Parent provides during the course of his book: Turning Stones. Conveying to the reader a sense of helplessness yet also one of hope and encouragement; Parent releases the stories of abused children in New York City. As a caseworker for New York's Emergency Children's Services, Parent has seen the worst of all abuse cases. By telling the stories of the abused children, Parent gives a voice to the silenced. Parent delves into the worst cases he has encountered and portrays each with intense descriptions and vivid imagery. During the course of the novel Parent reveals his true meaning and purpose. This purpose is a call to every reader. Every one must turn stones during the course of their lives; otherwise nothing has changed and all is lost. Parent gives us all a chance to see what happens if you do not try to change what should be. We must take it upon ourselves to learn from this book and become stone turners ourselves.
Rating: 5
Summary: Insite into some childrens bleek existance
Comment: Marc Parent tells us the story of his 4 years as an Emergency Child Service worker. He gives us a window into the lives of the children he has removed and the parents who raised them. His stories drew me in with their content and attention to detail. He makes you feel as though you know the people he is with and as though you are there with him in the broken down buildings. Whether its the mother who had a bad dream and decided that her kids needed to jump out a window to save them from the fires of hell or its the little boy with the overactive imagination who decides he needs to kill his little brother so the drug dealers in the hall won't find him, "Turning Stones" is a book that when you finish you feel changed.
Rating: 4
Summary: I hope to turn stones
Comment: I read this book before I started working with children at risk and this book created so many feelings of confusion and questions in my inner soul. Why do parents treat their children like this? What can we do to help parents STOP abusing and neglecting their children? Are people capable of changing and becoming good parents? Nobody knows the answers, but everyone knows that what human services agencies are doing now is NOT creating change. How many children have to die before changes, that make a difference, are made? This realistic rendition, of Parent's experiences working with children that the public does not want to talk about, should challenge all to turn stones.
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Title: ORPHANS OF THE LIVING : STORIES OF AMERICAS CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE by Jennifer Toth ISBN: 068484480X Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 02 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: True Partnership: Revolutionary Thinking About Relating to Others by Carl D. Zaiss ISBN: 157675166X Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: 09 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Heart Knows Something Different: Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System: Youth Communication by Al Desetta, Youth Communication ISBN: 0892552182 Publisher: Persea Books Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: What Happened to Johnnie Jordan? The Story of a Child Turning Violent by Jennifer Toth ISBN: 0684855585 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 20 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Tender Mercies: Inside the World of a Child Abuse Investigator by Keith N. Richards ISBN: 0878687386 Publisher: Child Welfare League of America Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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