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Title: The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care by Nina Bernstein ISBN: 0-679-75834-8 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 05 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Sad
Comment: I recently read this book. I have been a foster care case worker in New York City for four years and I iddentified with both sides of the Wilder case. Shirley adn her son, as well as millions of other children should have been given more than they were, they were forgotten and basically 'thrown away' by the foster care system. BUT, on the other hand, the agencies, the good agencies are only given SO much, and more agencies and services MUST be created, not should be, to beter service the children and their families. This is an excellent book, very down to earth, yet detailed. I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Herculean Accomplishment
Comment: The Lost Children of Wilder is a book that is long overdue. Bernstein captures the insidious machinations of the NYC foster care system that purports to care for the well-being of all its homeless, indigent, and too often parentless children, irrespective of their race, creed or religion. I know of the systematic abuse of the NYC foster care system because I was number 1811513 who was serviced out of the Brooklyn Bureau of Social service and Children's Aid Society at 285 Schermerhorn Street. Bernstein has accomplished a herculean task by lifting an airtight lid on an epic silence to speak truth for the many children, like myself, who at a time in our lives were both invisible and voiceless. Rev. Irene Monroe Harvard Divinity School.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Wisdom to End Foster Care and Orphanages
Comment: Once read, it might behoove caring persons to consider whether foster care and orphanages are proper environments for children whose parents are living, and whether even extended relatives are preferable to "kennel care" offered to humans, must less "sentenced" to them. In a modern age, if society cannot cope with the problems and the harms that occur with unwanted children, it's possible that we have been traveling down the wrong social path for some time. Examining the extent to which these environments are necessary, and damaging to children, it might be possible that alternative perspectives might provide solutions that are more family friendly, and salvage responsible, rather than to subject children to these emotionally detached and wrenching environments. It's possible we have been delusional for far too long in recognition of the fact that children are not as resilient as we tend to think they are, and that they were provided with two parents for that reason, because they need the protection, love and nurturing of parents, not just adult strangers. If we consider that it is unhealthy for mental health patients to be warehoused (if we can avoid it), why do we do it with children?
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Title: Orphans of the Living: Stories of America's Children in Foster Care by Jennifer Toth ISBN: 068484480X Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Wasted: The Plight of America's Unwanted Children by Patrick T. Murphy ISBN: 1566633338 Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.90 |
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Title: The Heart Knows Something Different: Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System : Youth Communication by Al Desetta ISBN: 0892552182 Publisher: Persea Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: NO MATTER HOW LOUD I SHOUT : A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court by Edward Humes ISBN: 0684811952 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 07 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Another Place at the Table: A Story of Shattered Childhoods Redeemed by Love by Kathryn Harrison, Kathy Harrison ISBN: 1585422002 Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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