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Title: ORPHANS OF THE LIVING : STORIES OF AMERICAS CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE by Jennifer Toth ISBN: 0-684-84480-X Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 02 July, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.53 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Definitely worth the read
Comment: Once I was getting on the case of one of my students, who is in foster care, for doing poorly in my class. He just keep saying, "You don't understand, Mr.____. You can't understand." Thanks to Ms. Toth I think I now understand or at least have a better understanding as to why he was doing poorly in my class. Ms. Toth did an excellent job of revealing the horrors that accompany the foster care system and how that system effects the children it supports. I do have a couple criticisms of this book. I can't help thinking that a few of the children chosen for this book are extreme examples (after all one does end up on Jerry Springer). And I think Ms. Toth unfairly demonizes public foster care. Though I am sure public foster care is far from ideal, I suspect that most people who work in that sytem do the best that they can with the limited resources they have available. Those criticisms aside, this book definitely is an eye opener which takes you into a world that few of us know or can even imagine. This is a world that many of our children have to face--alone.
Rating: 5
Summary: Toth's book graphically illustrates the evils of foster care
Comment: Unfortunately today, society is no longer surprised by the thought of child neglect or abuse. Such stories are found in the local and national news daily. However, Jennifer 's Orphans of the Living, demands that the issues of child neglect and foster care must not be merely labeled as 3old news.2 The author immerses the reader into the minds of four young people who have grown up within the realm of foster care. Their graphic and heart-piecing anecdotes, clearly relay Toth1s belief that substitute child care does not usually lead the child to happiness or normalcy. Through the stories of these kids, she instead depicts how the foster care system often concentrates more on reputation and politics than the well-being of the children.
Toth provides not a more lucid image of the orphans' psychology, but also on juvenile criminality and violence. Her studies support that abused kids are reduced to thinking that violence will award them with the love and attention of their parents. This book will definitely cause you to view juvenile criminal offenders with new eyes.
Orphan1s of the Living will indeed devour you with its gross and often unbearable rawness. However, as Troth has dutifully acknowledged, we owe it to these kids to hear their stories.
Rating: 5
Summary: Tug At Your Heart
Comment: This is a wonderful book. Heart wrenching but the truth as it is. she bring life to something people would rather ignore. Children who were swept under a rug are given a voice by Jennifer Thoth. I love this book.
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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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Title: Turning Stones: My Days and Nights With Children at Risk by Marc Parent ISBN: 0449912353 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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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: 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 Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care by Nina Bernstein ISBN: 0679758348 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 05 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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