Book Description
Based on a true story, The Forgotten Child is a heart-breaking memoir of an abandoned newborn baby left to die, his tempestuous upbringing, and how he came through the other side.
Author : Richard Gallear
Publisher : HarperElement
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Abandoned children
ISBN : 9780008320768
Based on a true story, The Forgotten Child is a heart-breaking memoir of an abandoned newborn baby left to die, his tempestuous upbringing, and how he came through the other side.
Author : Rachel Ginnis Fuchs
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 15,12 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780873957489
Kind / Fürsorge / Geschichte.
Author : Charles A. Nelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0674726073
The implications of early experience for children's brain development, behavior, and psychological functioning have long absorbed caregivers, researchers, and clinicians. The 1989 fall of Romania's Ceausescu regime left approximately 170,000 children in 700 overcrowded, impoverished institutions across Romania, and prompted the most comprehensive study to date on the effects of institutionalization on children's well-being. Romania's Abandoned Children, the authoritative account of this landmark study, documents the devastating toll paid by children who are deprived of responsive care, social interaction, stimulation, and psychological comfort. Launched in 2000, the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP) was a rigorously controlled investigation of foster care as an alternative to institutionalization. Researchers included 136 abandoned infants and toddlers in the study and randomly assigned half of them to foster care created specifically for the project. The other half stayed in Romanian institutions, where conditions remained substandard. Over a twelve-year span, both groups were assessed for physical growth, cognitive functioning, brain development, and social behavior. Data from a third group of children raised by their birth families were collected for comparison. The study found that the institutionalized children were severely impaired in IQ and manifested a variety of social and emotional disorders, as well as changes in brain development. However, the earlier an institutionalized child was placed into foster care, the better the recovery. Combining scientific, historical, and personal narratives in a gripping, often heartbreaking, account, Romania's Abandoned Children highlights the urgency of efforts to help the millions of parentless children living in institutions throughout the world.
Author : Kitty Neale
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007494122
Kitty Neale is back! Curl up with this heartrending new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A BROKEN FAMILY and A FATHER’S REVENGE
Author : Catherine Panter-Brick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 17,44 MB
Release : 2000-08-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780521775557
This book is a collection on abandoned children illustrating the need to contextualise their position in particular cultural situations.
Author : Jerri Diane Sueck
Publisher : Townsend Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1591940362
When her mother died in a fire, eight-year-old Jerri thought life couldn't get worse. She was wrong. Sent to live with people who didn't want her, Jerri was powerless to stop her once-happy childhood from becoming a nightmare of cruelty and neglect. Only a stubborn belief in her own worth and a fierce will to live allowed her to reach adulthood physically and emotionally intact. This is a book that will inspire not only those who have been orphans or foster children, but anyone who has known the pain of being unwanted. - Back cover.
Author : Paul Gallico
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 20,16 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 159017626X
London hasn’t been kind to Peter, a lonely boy whose parents are always out at parties, and though Peter would love to have a cat for company, his nanny won’t hear of it. One day, as Peter is walking out the door, he sees a truck bearing down on a tabby. Dashing out to save the cat, he is struck by the oncoming truck himself. Everything is different when Peter comes to: He has fur, whiskers, and claws; he has become a cat himself! But London isn’t any kinder to cats than it is to children. Jennie, a savvy stray who takes charge of Peter, knows that all too well. Jennie schools young Peter in the ways of cats, including how to sniff out a nice napping spot, the proper way to dine on mouse, and the single most important tactic a cat can learn: “When in doubt, wash.” Jennie and Peter will face many challenges—and not all of them are from the dangerous outside world—in their struggle to find a place that is truly home.
Author : Leila Miller
Publisher : Lcb Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 2017-05-20
Category : Adult children of divorced parents
ISBN : 9780997989311
Seventy now-adult children of divorce give their candid and often heart-wrenching answers to eight questions (arranged in eight chapters, by question), including: What were the main effects of your parents' divorce on your life? What do you say to those who claim that "children are resilient" and "children are happy when their parents are happy"? What would you like to tell your parents then and now? What do you want adults in our culture to know about divorce? What role has your faith played in your healing? Their simple and poignant responses are difficult to read and yet not without hope. Most of the contributors--women and men, young and old, single and married--have never spoken of the pain and consequences of their parents' divorce until now. They have often never been asked, and they believe that no one really wants to know. Despite vastly different circumstances and details, the similarities in their testimonies are striking; as the reader will discover, the death of a child's family impacts the human heart in universal ways.
Author : Peter Mercurio
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0525554750
This gentle and incredibly poignant picture book tells the true story of how one baby found his home. "Some babies are born into their families. Some are adopted. This is the story of how one baby found his family in the New York City subway." So begins the true story of Kevin and how he found his Daddy Danny and Papa Pete. Written in a direct address to his son, Pete's moving and emotional text tells how his partner, Danny, found a baby tucked away in the corner of a subway station on his way home from work one day. Pete and Danny ended up adopting the baby together. Although neither of them had prepared for the prospect of parenthood, they are reminded, "Where there is love, anything is possible."
Author : Jean Shinoda Bolen
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780062502100
Acclaimed author and Jungian analyst Bolen reveals the archetypal truths and liberating insights in Wagner's ever-popular Ring Cycle operas. Bolen's interpretations evoke the reader's associations, memories, and emotions to prompt insight and healing for both the psyche and society caught in the "Ring Cycle" of destruction and dysfunction.