 | Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk: A Caseworker's Story
| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | Marc Parent, Anna Quindlen (foreword) | | Publisher: | Ballantine Books | | Release date: | 27 January, 1998 | | List price: | $13.95 | | Our price: | $11.16 that is 20% off! |
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Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk: A Caseworker's Story |
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 | Insite into some childrens bleek existance |
| 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. |
| Turning Stones is powerful, thoughtful, honest. |
| Turning Stones provides an open and honest window to the world of children at risk. A New York City caseworker of four years, Marc Parent selects powerful and vivid stories to humanize the child welfare system. Parent takes us inside the homes and hearts of children he was sent to protect. Readers are provided with a firsthand account of these experiences, exposed to the powerful, almost unbelievable reality that countless children face. If not already in tune with the nature of child welfare work, reading this book quickly opens eyes, forcing thoughtful reflection. Turning Stones provides a solid and descriptive account of being a "caseworker in the field." More importantly, the author's message of family -- and lack thereof -- cannot be ignored. Parent paints quite clearly the absolute importance of the unwavering love necessary to truly keep children safe. Anyone can learn and expand their understanding of children at risk by reading Turning Stones. It may shock you, but definitely for the better. |
| Helps people understand the decisions of social workers |
| The book Turning Stones by Marc Parent focuses on Parent's cases as a social worker who makes visits to houses to decide whether or not the children need to be removed from their homes. Parent holds nothing back as he tells of the decisions that he had to make and why he made the choices that he did. The stories that he tells are both true and extremely shocking; including a mom who is trying to throw her kids out of a window, another mom who is convinced that her apartment has been hexed, and of parents who will do anything to stop their kids from being taken away. He also tells the story of a child who died after Parent had just been to the house to check on the child and all of the emotional problems that it caused himself and how he dealt with these problems. Parent uses these stories to try and show the problems that are involved with this line of work and how people can improve them in the future. This book really opened up my eyes about the horrors that face children in the world today. |
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